Cherokee War
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Cherokee War can refer to:
- The Anglo-Cherokee WarAnglo-Cherokee WarThe Anglo-Cherokee War , also known as the Cherokee War, the Cherokee Uprising, the Cherokee Rebellion, was a conflict between British forces in North America and Cherokee Indians during the French and Indian War...
from 1758 to 1761, sometimes known as the "First Cherokee War" - The Cherokee War of 1776Chickamauga warsThe Chickamauga Wars were a series of raids, campaigns, ambushes, minor skirmishes, and several full-scale frontier battles which were a continuation of the Cherokee struggle against encroachment by American frontiersmen from the former British colonies...
, sometimes known as the "Second Cherokee War," which was part of the western American RevolutionAmerican RevolutionThe American Revolution was the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America... - The Cherokee Trail of TearsCherokee removalCherokee removal, part of the Trail of Tears, refers to the forced relocation between 1836 to 1839 of the Cherokee Nation from their lands in Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, and North Carolina to the Indian Territory in the Western United States, which resulted in the deaths of approximately...
from 1836 to 1839: although no armed conflict took place, many official records of the time use the term - The Texan Cherokee War of 1839, part of the Texas-Indian WarsTexas-Indian WarsThe Texas–Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and Plains Indians. These conflicts began when the first European and mostly Spanish settlers moved into Spanish Texas, and continued through Texas's time as part of Mexico, when more Europeans, especially Americans...
, whose major confrontation was the Battle of the Neches