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SC, USA

Cherokee Trade Path Corridor

Trail

The historic overland route connecting Charleston to the Cherokee settlements in the mountains, running through Ninety Six. Control of this corridor made Ninety Six strategically significant to both British and Patriot forces; it was both a supply route and the axis along which backcountry militia moved to and from the fighting.

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Ninety Six area, SC

Connected Events

Oct 1780
Battle of Kings Mountain

Major Patrick Ferguson

May 1781
Greene Begins Siege of Ninety Six

Lieutenant Colonel John Harris Cruger, Major General Nathanael Greene, Thaddeus Kosciuszko

Jun 1781
Final American Assault on Star Fort

Lord Francis Rawdon, Lieutenant Colonel John Harris Cruger, Major General Nathanael Greene

Jun 1781
Rawdon Relieves Ninety Six

Major General Nathanael Greene, Lord Francis Rawdon

Jul 1781
British Abandon Ninety Six

Lord Francis Rawdon