1780–1781

Renewed destruction of Shawnee and Cherokee settlements

Ohio country and southern Appalachians

Militia operations burned settlements and seized property from people fleeing war. The book documents how destruction of homes and crops continued alongside the Revolution.

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Context / qualification

Part of multiple regional campaigns rather than one battle.

Sources

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 4

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