Ostenaco
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Ostenaco was a Cherokee leader, warrior, orator, and leader of diplomacy with British colonial authorities in the 18th century. By his thirties, he had assumed the warrior rank of "otacity", and the t
Portrait of Ostenaco by Joshua Reynolds, 1762
Drawing of Chief Ostenaco during his visit to London, 1762, by Joshua Reynolds
Siege of Fort Loudoun
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The siege of Fort Loudoun was an engagement during the Anglo-Cherokee War fought from February 1760 to August 1760 between the warriors of the Cherokee led by Ostenaco and the garrison of Fort Loudoun
Treachery of the Cherokees (illustration by W. J. T. depicting the massacre of surrounded troops, c. 1874)
The view of reconstructed fort interior from Bastion King George to the barracks.