Battle of Echoee

Battle of Echoee
	Part of the Anglo-Cherokee War and the French and Indian War
	; Map of Cherokee Country; by Henry Timberlake
Date	June 27, 1760
Location	Tennessee River; Cherokee Country ; now Tennessee
Result	Cherokee victory
Belligerents
Cherokee	Great Britain
Commanders and leaders
Seroweh	Archibald Montgomerie
Strength
500	1,300–1,500
Casualties and losses
40 killed	20 killed ; 76 wounded

The Battle of Echoee, or Etchoe Pass, was a battle on June 27, 1760 during the French and Indian War, between the British and colonial force under Archibald Montgomerie and a force of Cherokee warriors under Seroweh. It took place near the present-day municipality of Otto, in Macon County, North Carolina.^[3]

^ South Carolina Gazette, 5–12 July 1760.
^ ^a ^b Drake, p. 377.
^ Anderson, William, "Etchoe, Battle of", Encyclopedia of North Carolina, William S. Powell, ed., (UNC Press 2006).