The Battle of the Alamance was fought in Orange County, North Carolina on May 16, 1771 and was identified here as the first battle of the Revolutionary War. James Hunter, called “General” of the Regulators, was born in 1740 and died in 1821, and on November 6, 1772 declared, “The country is as much master now as ever.” The sequence presented continues from Alamance on May 16, 1771 to the Cherokee War in October 1776 and Guilford Court House on March 15, 1781. In 1773, without courts and beyond the Governor’s control, the people were a law unto themselves, corresponded with all the other colonies, and watched the proceedings of the British Parliament. In 1774, a Convention of the People of the Province assembled in open, flagrant defiance of the Crown, its Governor, and his proclamations, and was called “The First Representative Assembly that ever met in North Carolina or in America, save by Royal Authority.” On April 8, 1775, the last Royal legislative body that ever met in North Carolina ended; on May 20 the Mecklenburg Declaration was made; and on August 20 a popular government for the Province was established, with every county and borough town represented in the Convention. In February 1776, the people of the Province gained what is called here the first victory of the Revolutionary War at Moore’s Creek Bridge, North Carolina, and on April 12 North Carolina was first to declare for Continental Independence. Of twelve Regulators condemned at Hillsboro, six were executed by the British Governor: James Pugh, Robert Matear, Benjamin Merrill, Captain Messer, and two others whose names are now unknown. Under the gallows at Hillsboro, N.C., on June 19, 1771, James Pugh said, “Our blood will be as good seed in good ground, that will soon produce one hundred fold.”