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Cherokee Hostage Crisis and Cherokee War News
Reports from Fort Prince George detail Cherokee efforts to attack and scorch settlements while Lieut. Coytmore maintains hostage terms. News describes widespread frontier violence, fortifications, and massing militia and rangers to repel Indian incursions from Congarees to Augusta, with casualties and several forts attacked or reinforced.
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South Carolina
Fort Prince George
Coytmore
Gowdie
Andrew Willutson
Hkewife
Wil
Georgia
Georgia Rangers
Augusta
Shaw
Mackintoth
Moore
Outerbridge
Ms. Mfackintoth
Fort Moore
Stevens’s' Creek
Broad
Carolina
Tobler
George Golphinn
Golphin
General Assembly
Loudoun
Stuart
Garrifort
Garrisor
Heanth
Spisiiss
Williamson
Fort Loudoun