Why the Tuscaroras Risked Their Lives for the Americans-- Part 2: The Sadness at Fort Neoheroka, N.C.

2.  The Tuscaroras had never forgotten what the British had done to them in 1713.    In the early 18th century, the Tuscaroras lived in North Carolina, before being driven from their homeland by the British in the Tuscarora War at Fort Neoheroka, North Carolina, in March 20-23,1713.

The British and their Indian allies burned the fort and hundreds of Tuscarora men, women and children perished inside it.  Almost 200 more were killed  outside of the fort and approximately 400 Tuscaroras were taken captive and sold into slavery.

The defeat of the Tuscaroras, once the most powerful Indian nation in the Carolinas, allowed the British to open up the frontiers of the Carolinas to white settlement.

Most of the surviving Tuscaroras moved way north and settled in the Lewiston, New York area, becoming the sixth nation of the Iroquois Confederacy.

--Brock-Perry