Cherokee_Events+and+Leaders

=Events and Leader s = Celeste Billung-Meyer  (back to rise) ==  Events   == ===    ===  - 1450 Tugaloo Old Town, the first major Cherokee village (CBTC, [|Timeline]) - 1629- 1673 trading between the Cherokee and the English settlements begins (CBTC, [|Timeline])- 1697 first Smallpox epidemic (CBTC, [|Timeline]) - Tuscarora War 1711- 1715 (History 101, [|Family]) - The Yamasee War 1715- 1718 (U-S History, [|Travel]) - 1738 smallpox epidemic kills 25-50% of the Cherokee population (CBTC, [|Timeline]) - 1753 smallpox epidemic (Lee Sultzman, [|History]) - The Battle of Taliwa 1755 (CBTC, [|Timeline]) - The (Anglo-)Cherokee War 1758- 1761 (MSN, [|Encarta]) - 1759- 1760 smallpox epidemic (CBTC, [|Timeline]) - 1783 smallpox epidemic (OWR, [|Religion]) - The Chickamauga Wars 1776- 1794 (Tripatlas, [|Travel]) - The Creek Wars 1812- 1814 (CBTC, [|Timeline]) - The Battle (though it was more like a massacre) of the Strawberry Moon 1817 (John D. May, [|Oklahoma]) - 1838 the beginning of the "Trail of Tears", the Cherokee were rounded up, imprisoned and marched miles and miles. Many Cherokee died (North Georgia History, [|Timeline]) - The Battle of Neches 1839 (Hampson Gary, [|Online Book]) == <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 80%;">Leaders   == ==<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 80%;">   == <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 80%;">- Nancy Ward, when her husband Kingfisher was killed in the Battle of the Creek, she took his gun and led the Cherokee to victory 1738- 1822 (some say 1824) (North Georgia History, [|Timeline])    <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 80%;">- Sequoya, created the Cherokee alphabet and managed to make the whole Cherokee nation literate during the time he was alive 1760- 1843 (Genealogy, [|Leaders]) - John Ross, the first officially elected president of the Cherokee nation (although, John died during the fall of the Cherokee, he was an important figure during the rise as well) 1790- 1866 (Genealogy, [|Leaders]) (there were many leaders and important figures, but these were the three that continuously reappeared)

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