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On this day 250 years ago in what is now Oconee County, South Carolina, but was then in the territory of the Cherokee Nation, a scouting party of 25 South Carolina Militia led by Captain Andrew Pickens was ambushed by a much larger party of Cherokees. The Cherokees had at least175 warriors and surrounded the…
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On this day 250 years ago Scottish-born John Allan, a prominent landowner and merchant in Nova Scotia who had been a justice of the peace in Halifax, Clerk of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, Clerk of the Sessions, and member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, arrived in Passamaquoddy Bay heading to Machias, Maine (then part of Massachusetts).…
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On this day 250 years ago at a ford on the Tugaloo River in present-day Oconee County, South Carolina, Capt. Andrew Pickens led his company of South Carolina militia in attacking a band of Cherokee warriors. Pickens dispersed the Cherokees without the loss of any men killed or wounded. Pickens would go on to become…
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On this day 250 years ago in the Cherokee country now in western South Carolina, Major Andrew Williamson was leading 1150 men, primarily South Carolina Militia but also including Georgia Militia, small contingents of South Carolina Continentals and 20 Catawba warriors on a campaign to destroy Cherokee villages. The campaign was launched at the beginning…
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On this day 250 years ago at German Flatts, New York, Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler convened a multi-day conference with 1718 members (men, women and children) of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (often referred to as Iroquois Indians). In his welcoming remarks Schuyler said the Americans “mean to live in friendship, and cultivate a good understanding, and…
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On this day 250 years ago the HMS Roebuck, Dunmore, William, Anna, three transports and seven other small vessels sailed from Lynnhaven Bay (in today’s City of Virginia Beach) and out of the Chesapeake Bay heading to New York. These14 vessels were the final remnant of the fleet of over 100 British and Loyalist vessels…
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On this day 250 years ago at Fort Ticonderoga, New York, Col. Arthur St. Clair, the commander of the 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment, was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in recognition of his exemplary service in Canada. St. Clair was born in Scotland and settled in America in 1764. He would later be promoted…
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On this day 250 years ago, the HMS Fowey and seven vessels sailed out of Chesapeake Bay departing Virginia waters. Readers of this blog may recall several mentions of the Fowey which had been sailing in Virginia waters since June 1775 in frequent combat with Virginia forces. The previous day, the HMS Otter, which had…
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On this day 250 years ago, from his camp on Long Island (in present day Brooklyn), Brigadier General Nathanael Greene reported to General Washington: 21 Sail seen off last Evening, Eight arrivd at the Hook this morning and thirteen coming in. The Enemies Guard Boats pattroled much higher up the Bay than usual last Night.…
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On this day 250 years ago, Governor Dunmore’s British fleet departed Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay sailing to Lynnhaven Bay near the mouth of the Chesapeake. Dunmore’s original fleet had comprised over 100 vessels, but had been reduced to a few more than 70 ships. A few ships had been lost in storms, and…
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