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Watauga Fort stood 400 yards northward and one-half mile northeast of the mouth of Gap Creek. Here, on July 21, 1776, the settlers under Captain James Robertson repulsed the Cherokees under Old Abraham of Chilhowee, and Lieutenant John Sevier rescued "Bonny Kate" Sherrell.
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