Daniel Boone Timeline
Category: Otro
Actualizado: 11 abr 2023
Timeline of Daniel Boone for Missouri History Project
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Created byAubrey Wise
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Daniel Boone was born.Had a reputation as one of the region's best hunters in Pennsylvania.In Boone's youth, his family became a source of controversy. This led his father, Squire Boone, to sell his land and move the family to North Carolina.General Edward Braddock attempted to drive the French out of the Ohio Country, which ended at the Battle of the Monongahela. Boone decides to flee with retreating soldiers.Conflict erupted between British colonists and the Cherokees. After the Yadkin Valley was raided by Cherokees, the Boones fled north to Culpeper County, Virginia.Boone and his brother Squire first crossed into what would become the state of Kentucky, but they failed to reach the rich hunting grounds.In May 1769, Boone set out again with a party of five others—including John Findley, who first told Boone of the Cumberland Gap—on a two-year hunting and trapping expedition.Boone marries Rebecca Bryan, a neighbor in the Yadkin Valley.Boone returned to North Carolina to take his family back to Kentucky.After the Revolutionary War ended, Boone resettled in Limestone (renamed Maysville, Kentucky), then a booming Ohio River port.Boone moved upriver to Point Pleasant, Virginia (now West Virginia).In 1795, Boone and his wife moved back to Kentucky on land owned by their son, Daniel Morgan Boone.He moved his extended family to what is now St. Charles County, Missouri, but was then part of Spanish Louisiana.Boone dies at age 85.Períodos
French and Indian War
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