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Seroweh's warriors ambush Montgomerie at Echoee Pass; the British retreat to Charleston
Cherokee fighters kill Captain Morrison and rout the Rangers, leaving 1,300 troops too burdened with wounded to press on toward the Middle Settlements.
By the summer of 1760, the Anglo-Cherokee War had already claimed fourteen Cherokee hostages executed at Fort Prince George, and Archibald Montgomerie was marching 1,300 troops through the Carolina mountains to finish the campaign. On June 27, in a deep valley five miles from the Middle Settlement town of Etchoe, Cherokee warriors under Seroweh ambushed the British advance guard — killing Captain Morrison and routing the Rangers outright. Montgomerie, saddled with dozens of seriously wounded men and too few pack animals to carry them forward, abandoned his advance and retreated first to Fort Prince George, then all the way back to Charleston…
