The War Years (1775-1783)
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Fort Watauga and the 1776 Cherokee Siege
On July 21, 1776, the once-peaceful morning was broken by the sounds of musketry as a Cherokee war party, under Chief Old Abraham, attacked the frontier fort known as Fort Watauga, also known as Fort Caswell, near present-day Elizabethton, Tennessee. This attack was not successful, and it led to an eventual several-day siege on the […]