Fort Loudoun Tennessee

Layout by:During the French and Indian War (1754-1763) the British Colony of South Carolina felt threatened by French activities in the Mississippi Valley. To counter this threat, the Colony sent the Independent Company of South Carolina to construct and garrison what became Fort Loudoun.Late Summer, 1756. Sergeant William Gibbs of the Independent Company of South Carolina leads a detachment of twenty soldiers and a number of Cherokee warriors, including the chief Attakullakulla, on an expedition from Fort Prince George (near present day Clemson, South Carolina) to Tomately, a Cherokee town located near Chota, the capitol of the Cherokee Nation, in what is now East Tennessee. On arrival, Gibbs was to reconnoiter the area for a new British fortification that would eventually be called Fort Loudoun.This move helped to ally the Overhill Cherokee Nation in the fight against the French and guaranteed the trade would continue between the Cherokee and South Carolina.In the course of the fort's four-year existence, relations between South Carolina and the Cherokee Nation broke down. In August, 1760, the Cherokee captured Fort Loudoun and its garrison.I am a re-enactor of this period and portray a British Red Coat and a Surgeon's Apprentice