- Fort Loundoun located in east Tennessee.
- French moving south.
- French built fort in Ohio.
- George Washington met with french men and killed them all.
- Then he got defeated by the rest of the French.
- England and France fought on many different battlegrounds including both Americas and Europe.
- British wore red overcoats.
- English had many victories in 1758 and started making up for lost ground.
- Cherokee was eager to ally with the English to attack a major French fort.
- The English were slow to get to the fort so most of the Cherokee deserted the English.
- By the time the English got to the fort it had burned down and been deserted as well.
- The remaining Cherokee attacked farms and took the livestock as "payment".
- The Cherokee was open to parley so they traveled to meet the governor of the English.
- Along the road they met a author that said the Governor was a day behind him.
- When they met the Governor the he took the Cherokee leaders prisoner.
- The Governor said that he wanted the Cherokee warriors that attacked the farms so he could give them a trial in England.
- The Cherokee chief gave him the warriors but he only managed to free one general.
- He then decided to attack the fort hoping that in the confusion the leaders could escape.
- Instead when they attacked the fort the soldiers turned on the cherokee leaders inside and killed all of them.
- There was militia that was regular people that signed up to be part of the military
- There also was soldiers that were always soldiers
- The uniform was made of 15 pounds of wool
- Every uniform had a badge that could tell you what unit and fort you were from
- In total there was 60 pounds of equipment
- The fort is about 150 yards squared
One good thing about talking to Mr. Akin was that he told us lots of new information that Mr. Solarz wouldn't have been able to tell us and he told it to us very interestingly.