CHAPTER 4.
Cherokee War continues--Marion leads the Forlorn Hope at the Battle of Etchoee.
The Cherokees were very far from being subdued or satisfied.

The snake had been "scotched not killed", and stung, rather than humbled by the chastisement they received, they prepared to assume the offensive with sudden vigor.

Concentrating a numerous force upon the distant garrison of Fort Loudon, on the Tennessee river, they succeeded in reducing it by famine.

Here they took bloody revenge for the massacre of their chiefs at Prince George.

The garrison was butchered, after a formal surrender upon terms which guaranteed them protection.