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What was Nancy Ward’s role in the attack on Fort Watauga?

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In her role as a Ghigau, Nancy Ward (as she became known to English-speakers) had the authority to spare captives. In 1776, following a Cherokee attack on the Fort Watauga settlement on the Watauga River (at present day Elizabethton, Tennessee), she saved settler Lydia (Russell) Bean, the wife of a man named William.

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