Plan Of Battle Of Kings Mountain

Commanded by Colonel Ferguson:

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'The cleared area or bare summit of the King's Mountain range,' a narrow, stony ridge; on which Ferguson pitched his camp, has an outline not unlike that of an Indian paddle...".

The Affair At King's Mountain

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French-Indian War Illustrations

The Idler, Volume 20:

General James Wolfe's entry at Wikitree.

British Officers Serving In America

British Officers Serving In America:

Lewis Brothers At Braddock's Defeat

Lieutent-Colonel's Commission

Portrait @ The Karl C. Harrison Museum Of George Washington

Journal of Colonel George Washington: Commanding a Detachment of Virginia Troops, Sent by Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant-governor of Virginia, Across the Alleghany Mountains, in 1754, to Build Forts at the Head of the Ohio:

Advanced Across St. Mary's River

"...when a regular siege was planned in Georgia...".  "...the then Rebels having advanced across St. Mary's river, were beat back, and frustrated in their designs, chiefly by the spirited exertions of the Militia embodied by Governour Tonyn, for the defence of East-Florida, and paid by Government, under the conduct and command of that active and enterprising officer Lieutenant Colonel Brown."

St. Mary's, Georgia

"At another period, when it became necessary for his Majesty's service, and the defence of the Province, to encamp the Regular Troops, which was done by Lieutenant-Colonel Glazier, the Inhabitants, as a Militia, without pay, rations, or arms, from Government, chearfully mounted the guards, patroled, and did all the town duty; as indeed they did on other occasions, when deemed necessary." [Source]

The Backwoods of Canada

The Backwoods of Canada: Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer ...,  By Catherine Parr Strickland Traill:

"The only vessel in the river bound for Canada, was a passenger-ship, literally swarming with emigants, chiefly of the lower class of Highlanders."

"When the weather is fine I sit on a bench on the deck, wrapped in my cloak, and sew, or pace the deck with my husband, and talk over plans for the future, which in all probability will never be realized."

"...one of my countrymen [who] just returned from the western district on his way back to England...entreats us by no means to go further up this horrid country as he emphatically styles the Upper Province... .  He had been induced by reading Cattermole's pamphlet on the subject of Emigration to quit a good farm and gathering together what property he possessed to embark for Canada. Encouraged...he purchased a lot of wild land in the western district...".

Inception Of The Canada Company

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"...the belief was 'Niagara must be considered the utmost limit west ward capable of cultivation.' In a word, the country had so far been considered only fit to produce peltries and pine masts. This wish to recompense the losses sustained by those colonists who had so faithfully served the parent overnment took active form in the inception of the Canada Company."

"The British officers who returned after the war had told those at home that although description had been true in calling the colony a "vast solitude," it was by no means " a hopeless wilderness." It is true, so late as 1804, Upper Canada had County Lieutenants, and a Domesday Book which contained records of grants of land from the beginning of the organization of that province in 1792. The still familiar name of Baby figured there as County Lieutenant for Kent."

The Fort

Source: LOC of Penobscot Bay (Maine) Map

A quote from The Fort; A Novel of the Revolutionary War by Bernard Cornwell; the subject was the Siege of Penobscot Bay, then part of Massachusetts, from July 24, 1779 to August 14, 1779):

We have received intelligence...from patriots in the Penobscot region.  We know for certain that a considerable force of the enemy has landed, that they are guarded by three sloops-of-war, and that they are commanded by Brigadier-General Francis McLean.  ...an experienced soldier.  Most of his service was in the Portuguese employment. (Page 96)

An authentic document that included a real-life character of The Fort:

Dr. Califf, affiant, was also a charachter in the book The Fort.

"Dr. Califf thinks that Matthew Lymburner cannot return to Penobscott.  he was taken prisoner by the Rebels during the Siege of Penobscott and cruelly treated but was liberated when the Rebel Fleet was drove a shore." [Source Audit Office: AO 12. Claims, American Loyalists...]

General McLean was also mentioned in the "Claims."

The Amulet

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"Very joyous he [Captain Howard] was in these days. The Seven Years' War was fairly over, the treaty of peace concluded, and the surrender of the French forts on the American frontier already imminent, even thus early in the spring of 1763. His own difficult tour of service here at Fort Prince George, the British stronghold on the eastern edge of the Cherokee country, was nearing its close. He, himself, was to be transferred to a post of ease and comfort at Charlestown... ."

British Flag

"The flag rose buoyantly to the tip of the staff. The Indian town of Old Keowee, on the opposite bank of the river, was all astir and now and again the sonorous note of the conch shell, a detail of the matutinal savage worship, blended oddly with the martial resonance of the British drums beating for roll-call as the garrison of Fort Prince George lined up in front of the barracks."

"...[a soldier] was recollecting that her father's predecessor in command, Captain Coytmore, had been treacherously slaughtered by the Cherokees in a conference at the gate of this fort, within twenty paces of the spot where she now stood."

To Chote, Old Town

The Story of Old Fort Loudon (published 1899):

"Along the buffalo paths, from one salt-lick to another, a group of pioneers took a vagrant way through the dense cane-brakes."

"Dark, gloomy, with long, level summit-lines, a grim outlier of the mountain range, since known as
the Cumberland, stretched from northeast to southwest, seeming as they approached to interpose an insurmountable barrier to further progress, until suddenly...showed a gap...and a new and beautiful land."

"The Indian gazed upon her doubtfully. He had evidently only a few disconnected sentences of English at command, although he understood far more than he could frame... . "...even previous to the present outbreak and despite the stipulations of their treaties with the English, the Cherokees were known to have hesitated long in taking sides in the struggle between France and Great Britain, still in progress now in 1758, for supremacy in this western country, and many were suspected of yet inclining to the French, who had made great efforts to detach them from the British interest."

"Where go?" demanded the chief, suspiciously. "To Choté, old town," she averred at haphazard, naming the famous "beloved town, city of refuge," of the Cherokee nation."

To Bouquet From Detroit

From the Report of the Public Archives, by Public Archives of Canada:

Year: 1762

Major Acland In Hadden's Journal

There is a reference to Major John Dyke Acland (18 February 1746 - 31 October 1778) in Hadden's Journal (kept in Canada during Burgoyne's campaign in 1776 and 1777).

Is there a connection between the Ackland and Acklin families? I don't know.

Strike Kentucky Settlers Hard And Often

Cabin In Kentucky

From The Kentuckians by Janet Holt Giles:

"Davie, I've come by to give you news.  The British have treated with the Six Nations and the Indians are going over to their side in this war.  All the tribes north of the Ohio know of it and will take their part.  They're aiming to strike at the settlers in Kentucky, hard and often, with British guns and powder baking 'em up, and in time even British officers to lead 'em.  Henry Hamilton had put up a bounty for ever' scalp they take.  Who is Henry Hamilton.  He's the British governor at Detroit."

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Glimpses Of The Detroit Stockade

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Also see Messages In Kaskaskia blog post

"The early haze of evening discovered us skirting the edge of a heavy forest, and occasionally, when the fringe of intervening, trees grew somewhat narrower upon our right, we were enabled to catch fleeting glimpses of the Detroit stockade, far away across a space of open ground. It appeared dark and sombre enough in the gathering shadows, but the English flag flapped defiantly against the sky, and once as I gazed that way, the sharp spit of a musket left for an instant a red flare against the black logs in evidence that its garrison were alert and ready."

Forts On Indian Lands

Fort Loudon (Tennessee)

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William Henry, Armorer Attached To Braddock's Expedition

Braddock's "Road To Disaster" Near Fort Necessity National Battlefield

NPS Sign At Fort Necessity

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"He" is William Henry, born May 19, 1729.

Via The Wilderness Trace Through Kentucky

Cumberland Gap Area

Henry Hamilton's Journal:

Dramatic And Significant

Clark At Vincennes

Henry Hamilton's Journal:


The most dramatic and significant event of the American Revolution in the West was the capture of Lieutenant-Governor Henry Hamilton of Detroit by tough young George Rogers Clark at Vincennes on February 24th, 1779.