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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 79. Chapters: Chickamauga Wars, Overhill Cherokee, Cherokee history, War of the Regulation, Cherokee Nation, State of Franklin, Kingston Pike, Sycamore Shoals, Chiaha, Bledsoe's Station, Anglo-Cherokee War, Fort Blount, Old Stone Fort, Tellico Blockhouse, Watauga Association, Longhunter, Tanasi, Fort Watauga, Fort Nashborough, Icehouse Bottom, Transylvania, Fort Adair, Royal Colonial Boundary of 1665, Chisca, Dallas Phase, Nickajack Expedition, Hubbard's Cave, White's Fort, Tennessee County, Mississippi Land Company. Excerpt: The Chickamauga Wars (1776-1794) were a series of back-and-forth raids, campaigns, ambushes, minor skirmishes, and several full-scale frontier battles which were a continuation of the Cherokee (Ani-Yunwiya, Ani-Kituwa, Tsalagi, Talligewi) struggle against encroachment into their territory by American frontiersmen from the former British colonies, and, until the end of the American Revolution, their contribution to the war effort as British allies. After 1786, they also fought along with and as members of the Western Confederacy. "The Cherokees are Coming," an illustration depicting a scout warning the residents of Knoxville, Tennessee, of the approach of a large Cherokee force in September 1793.Open warfare broke out in the summer of 1776 between the Cherokee led by Dragging Canoe (a group first called the "Chickamauga" or "Chickamauga-Cherokee" by the colonials, and later the "Lower Cherokee") and frontier settlers along the Watauga, Holston, Nolichucky, and Doe Rivers in East Tennessee. It later spread to those along the Cumberland River in Middle Tennessee and in Kentucky, as well as the colonies (later states) of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The earliest phase of these conflicts, ending with the treaties of 1777, is sometimes called the "Second Cherokee War," a reference to the ...