Bowl
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Military History
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American History 1816-1855, American Indian History, American Early National History (1789-1815)
Article abstract: The leader of a large band of Cherokee militants, Bowl fought Americans throughout his life.
The son of a Cherokee woman and a Scots-Irish trader named Bowles, Bowl was born in North Carolina and grew up in Chickamauga, Tennessee.
While most Cherokee sided with the Americans or remained neutral during the American Revolution, Bowl aided the British. In 1794, at the Massacre of Muscle Shoals, he attacked a white settlement along the Tennessee River in present-day Alabama. Thereafter, rather than surrendering to the Cherokee Council, which...
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