Kasihta or Cusseta Town, an important Creek Nation market, played a part in American Revolutionary affairs when in 1780 British Colonel John Tate recruited a large force of local Indians for duty with the British in their defense of Augusta, Georgia; he became ill during the march to Augusta, was returned to Kasihta, died, and was buried on what is now the Fort Benning Military Reservation. Established following World War I, this post occupies former Indian lands sold during the Georgia Land Lottery of 1827; John Woolfolk consolidated small land holdings in 1843, Benjamin Hatcher acquired the property in 1883, and Arthur Bussey purchased the plantation in 1907 before selling it to the Federal Government in 1919. Fort Benning now occupies some 180,000 acres in Georgia and Alabama, most of them in Chattahoochee County, Georgia.