A war chief’s ingenious defense of the Cherokee homeland. Late on the sultry afternoon of Aug. 22, 1788, several hundred Cherokee warriors under the command of war chief Dragging Canoe took up positions in a mountain pass near what today is Chattanooga, Tenn. The Indians anxiously awaited a 500-man invading militia of white frontiersmen led …
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