On this occasion much resistance was expected, but the garrison abandoned the fort, and escaped to two British vessels, the Tamar and cherokee, then lying in Charleston harbour.
"A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion"
William Dobein James
In the same year, 1759, the cherokee war broke out, and he turned out as a volunteer, in his brother's troop of provincial cavalry.
"A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion"
William Dobein James
As a measure of African capacity it is of some value; and in this respect, it speaks for the Negro just as the cherokee alphabet speaks for the American Indian.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham