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Crushing the Cherokees.
Thus ended the Cherokee war, which was among the last humbling strokes given to the expiring power of France in North America .-- Hewatt: An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia.

1779.
Governor Lyttelton's treaty of "peace", negotiated with the Cherokees at the close of 1759, was worse than a crime: it was a crass and hideous blunder.

His domineering attitude and tyrannical treatment of these Indians had aroused the bitterest animosity.

Yet he did not realize that it was no longer safe to trust their word.