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Pioneers of the Old Southwest

CHAPTER VIII
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Opposed to him, were eleven hundred of Governor Tryon's troops, officered by such patriots as Griffith Rutherford, Hugh Waddell, and Francis Nash.

During an hour's engagement about twenty Regulators were killed, while the Governor's troops had nine killed and sixty-one wounded.

Six of the leaders were hanged.

The rest took the oath of allegiance which Tryon administered.
It has been said about the Regulators that they were not cast down by their defeat at Alamance but "like the mammoth, they shook the bolt from their brow and crossed the mountains," but such flowery phrases do not seem to have been inspired by facts.

Nor do the records show that "fifteen hundred Regulators" arrived at Watauga in 1771, as has also been stated.


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