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Located 0.2 miles east on the Big Pigeon River is a strategic crossing used by the Cherokees. In August 1782, General Charles McDowell of Burke County, North Carolina, raised an army of five hundred mounted militia from Morgan District to cross the mountains, join Colonel John Sevier's army of the same number from Washington District, and subdue the Indians who sided with the British. During this three month campaign, one of the final skirmishes of the Revolutionary War was fought at this site.
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Newport, Tennessee · United States
