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Author: Howard, Amy (ID633)
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Mend probably knew some of Pight's negro company. Maybe he was one of Brim's scouts. Maybe he approa
Mend probably knew some of Pight's negro company. Maybe he was one of Brim's scouts. Maybe he approached the negro company.
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Maurice Moore took 300 men into Cherokee country
Date Created: 2023-10-12 20:56:17
Source: The Southern Frontier (ID 86)
Author: Crane, Verner (ID 35)
Content_id: 20125
To resolve these doubts [of Cherokee loyalty] and secure their aid against the Creeks were the objects of the most spectacular enterprise of the war: the march of Colonel Maurice Moore with three hundred men into the heart of the Cherokee country. 57 [Note 57 C.O.] This exploit, it seems clear, turned the scale of Cherokee policy at a most critical juncture, when Creek emissaries were at work to persuade the mountaineers to break once more with the English. So vivid a tradition of the crucial character of the affair was cherished in South Carolina that forty years later Governor Glen, in praising the character of one of the heroes of the march, Captain William Bull, later lieutenant-governor, declared that 'it is probably owing to that March, that we have this opportunity, so long after, of commemorating that Era; for had the Cherokee and Creeks joined at that time, which nothing prevented but the resolute Behaviour of our Militia; it might have proved fatal, it must have been, at least very dangerous to the Province.'58 [Note 58 South Carolina Gazette, April 3, 1755.] Under Moore served a number of practised Indian fighters, including Major John Herbert and Captain George Chicken, both Indian commissioners after the war, Captain Nathaniel Broughton, Captain Thomas Smith, Captain John Cantey, and Captain John Pight with his negro company. But their mission called for skill in Indian diplomacy, rather than fighting, though their show of force in the Lower Towns no doubt made an impression. From Savannah Town they followed the old traders' path on the left bank to Toccoa and Tugaloo. Their march was undisturbed, but later they learned that they had been shadowed all the way by the scouts of Brims of Coweta.