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The Saintly City or God's Country

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@bheintzskol 100%

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History is so cool! Plus America is even cooler! 🇺🇸

[᛭ Ian ᛭ @KnightspurHouse]

The Cherokee War of 1776 erupted amid the early stages of the American Revolutionary War as a major conflict between Cherokee warriors and American frontier settlers. Long-standing grievances over land encroachment fueled the outbreak. Following the French and Indian War, colonists steadily pushed into Cherokee hunting grounds in the southern Appalachians, violating earlier treaties and creating widespread resentment. British officials, including Southern Indian Superintendent John Stuart and his deputy Alexander Cameron, actively encouraged Cherokee resistance to Patriot settlers in hopes of opening a second front against the rebelling colonies. Influenced by charismatic leaders such as Dragging Canoe of the Overhill Towns-who rejected further land cessions-the Cherokee coordinated a broad offensive across multiple regions.
The Cherokee campaign began in late June 1776 with attacks by Lower Town warriors on South Carolina frontier settlements and intensified on July 1 when war parties from the Middle, Out, and Valley Towns struck North Carolina settlements east of the Blue Ridge, particularly in the Ninety Six and Spartan Districts along the Catawba River. Raiders overran isolated farmsteads, killed settlers, burned homes, and seized livestock. In the Overhill region (present-day eastern Tennessee), Dragging Canoe led additional forces against Watauga and Holston River settlements. Some settlers received advance warnings from Nancy Ward, the influential Cherokee Beloved Woman, allowing them to take refuge in forts, but many outlying families suffered surprise attacks. Initial Cherokee successes created panic across the southern backcountry, though several raids were repulsed at fortified positions.
American colonial authorities responded with rapid mobilization of backcountry militias from South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. In South Carolina, Colonel Andrew Williamson, Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Pickens, and Francis Salvador assembled forces to launch punitive expeditions into Cherokee territory. Key early clashes included the successful defense of Lindley's Fort on July 15 against a combined Cherokee-Loyalist force and the Battle of Esseneca Ford (Seneca Old Town) on August 1, where Williamson's command withstood an ambush before counterattacking. North Carolina militia under Brigadier General Griffith Rutherford conducted deep incursions, while Virginia forces protected their own frontier. These operations quickly turned into scorched-earth campaigns that burned Cherokee towns, destroyed crops and livestock, and disrupted supply lines.
By fall 1776 the Cherokee offensive had collapsed under overwhelming retaliation, with heavy losses in warriors and the destruction of dozens of towns. In May 1777 Cherokee delegates signed the Treaty of Dewitt's Corner, agreeing to a ceasefire and ceding large tracts of land in present-day northwestern South Carolina. Not all Cherokee accepted the terms; Dragging Canoe and his followers rejected the peace, migrated westward, and established the Chickamauga settlements from which they continued resistance for nearly two decades. The Cherokee War of 1776, launched just days before the Declaration of Independence, highlighted how the struggle for American independence intertwined with violent competition for western lands, decisively weakening Cherokee military power and accelerating settler expansion into the southern frontier.

[St. Paul Saints @StPaulSaints]

come home @KingJames

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@hemantmehta I know… that damn Al Franken shouldn’t have listen to Trump so much!

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Perspective is a hell of a thing!

[Carl Higbie @CarlHigbie]

FYI: you are 8 times more likely to die of diarrhea in India than you are of being killed by a gun in America

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@Polymarket The birds love the flag! 🇺🇸

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@ElpadrinoMN82 @bringmethenews Bring that bad boy down to the keys!

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@FOX9 We have a Department of Children, Youth and Families? Think if we just focused on fixing our roads!

[Alpha News @AlphaNews]

Scott Johnson: Luis Ottley’s troubled reign as St. Paul Academy’s head of school

"This past February, a parental member of the St. Paul Academy 'community' leaked a school email to Liz Collin of Alpha News," writes Scott Johnson. "It precipitated something like a national security crisis at the school."

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@C_3C_3 They are just talking about who they are banging…

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@Local12 A true American! God bless!

[Aviation @xAviation]

The F-22 looks huge compared to the F-16 and P-51!

📹: Kylenewsom1

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

The “white supremacist KKK” who burned a cross in Chicago is a Leftist anti-Trump Asian dude

Another hoax.

Every. Single. Time.

[Siraj Hashmi @SirajAHashmi]

The type of women you meet at 3am at Luftwaffle House

[New York Post @nypost]

SPLC boss funneled $1.2 million to lover in neo-Nazi group - pair even had joint bank account https://t.co/TJWL3LzWc3

[Dustin Grage @GrageDustin]

The left has no answer for this.

We’re winning.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

It must suck to have to pretend to be mad at this

[Ben Pouladian @benitoz]

This aged horrifically.

California politicians dunked on Elon and helped drive out SpaceX, Tesla jobs, engineers, suppliers, and the tax base.

Now SpaceX is headed for a $1.75T IPO.

“Message received” may be the most expensive political own-goal in California history.

[Reddit Lies @reddit_lies]

Daily reminder that Redditors "debunked" Starlink as "impossible" 8 years ago.

Just in case you start thinking a phone scratcher has a better mental model of thermodynamics than SpaceX engineers.