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A “Dark and Bloody” Path of Resistance: The Chickamauga Cherokee

A “Dark and Bloody” Path of Resistance: The Chickamauga Cherokee

After the Seven Years War, King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, restricting colonists from encroaching on Native American lands west of Appalachia. The decree was largely ignored. Then, in 1774, a land speculator coerced the Cherokee to part with 20...

Foreign-Born Patriots of the American Revolution

Foreign-Born Patriots of the American Revolution

Marquis de Lafayette In 1777, the Marquis de Lafayette, a 19-year-old French nobleman, sailed across the ocean to help America win its independence. Arriving on June 13, Lafayette was made a major general in the Continental Army, serving under his idol, George...

James Lafayette – Stories of the American Revolution

James Lafayette – Stories of the American Revolution

Washington did not really outfight the British. He simply out-spied us - British Intelligence Officer. By the summer of 1781, simply sustaining the Continental Army proved challenging. Earlier winter encampments and intense fighting devastated the patriot spirit. That...

Colonel Tye and the Black Brigade

Colonel Tye and the Black Brigade

Cornelis Titus fled enslavement when he was 22 and joined the British Army as part of the Ethiopian Regiment, an all-Black unit whose rallying cry was “Liberty to Slaves.”  Poorly trained, the unit was slaughtered in its second battle. Titus, one of the unit’s few...

Colonel Tye and the Black Brigade

Cornelis Titus fled enslavement when he was 22 and joined the British Army as part of the Ethiopian Regiment, an all-Black unit whose rallying cry was “Liberty to Slaves.”  Poorly trained, the unit was slaughtered in its second battle. Titus, one of the unit’s few...

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