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The Cherokee War of 1776, also known as the Second Cherokee War, was a series of conflicts and raids between the American people and Native Cherokee Tribes. The cause of these conflicts were due to the Western Expansion of the Frontiersmen onto Cherokee Land which is now known as the Appalachian Mountains in Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee. These particular conflicts and many more conflicts are known to Historians as the Cherokee-American Wars.

The War
The War began in the Summer of 1776. The conflicts began, due to expansion into Cherokee Lands making them become fearful of the American Frontiersmen, with series of raids against the American settlements. Under the Command of General Rutherford, Captain William Moore led attacks against the Cherokee in July of 1776, destroying 5 Cherokee towns, killing around 50-60 Cherokees and suffering minor losses. The conflict was known as Rutherford Light Horse Expedition. Rutherford also led militia men to the town of Cowee, to fend off the Cherokee from attacking settlers. The Cherokee people being over-powered and out-numbered, they offered peace to the American People. This conflict was known as the Battle of Cowee Gap. After the destruction and lost that the Cherokee people maintained, the majority of the Cherokee settlements signed the Treaty of Dewitt's Corner in 1777.

The Aftermath
The Treaty of Dewitt's Corner did not stop all conflict between the American and the Cherokee People. In fact, groups of the Chickamauga band of the Cherokee people, led by Dragging Canoe, refused to sign the treaty and continued attacks on the American Settlements for nearly four years exhausting their people and their resources but a peaceful agreement the Chickamauga Cherokees did not come until 1785 when the Treaty of Hopewell was signed, but conflicts, in the Eastern Continental United States, continued between the American people and all Indigenous peoples until the Indian Removal Act in 1830 leading to the Trail of Tears.