The French and Indian War - The Cherokee War

American Political History · Jul 4, 2023 · 18m

While the British took Quebec in the north, the southern colonies fought a war almost nobody up north was watching — a brutal frontier war against the Cherokee, the most powerful nation of the southern mountains, and until a year before, their own ally. This is the story of how that alliance came apart: of warriors murdered and scalped for bounty on their way home from fighting England’s war, of a blood debt the colonists never understood, of a peace delegation locked in a frontier fort and killed there, and of Fort Loudoun — a starving British garrison hundreds of miles from help, fed in…