Griffith Rutherford — born 1721 in Ireland; died Aug 10, 1805 in Sumner County, TN. 🇺🇸
The Overmountain giant. A 6’4″ surveyor-turned-general who led the Rowan County militia against the Regulators at Alamance, then turned the frontier into a weapon: the 1776 Cherokee Expedition crushed the British-allied towns, and at Ramsour’s Mill his militia broke the Loyalists in the Carolina backcountry. Congress made him a brigadier general. He marched where the maps ran out.
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