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When the French & Indian War began in 1754, North Carolina's frontier was largely exposed. In 1755, at Gov. Arthur Dobbs' urging, the colonial assembly allocated funds for a fort to protect the region from Native Americans allied with the French. Fort Dobbs was completed in 1756 & garrisoned by North Carolina provincial soldiers, who served throughout the colonies during the war. On February 27, 1760, more than seventy Cherokee Indians did attack, but the fort's occupants successfully repelled them By the time the war ceded in 1763, the fort had been abandoned & by 1766 it lay in ruins. A turning point on the road to Revolution, the French & Indian War ultimately resulted in a sense of unity among the colonies resentment for the Crown. Today Fort Dobbs is a reminder of this important event in colonial American history.

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Directed construction of Fort Dobbs in 1756 while in command of Provincial forces. Irish born, Waddell was in North Carolina by 1754. During French & Indian War, he led troops to Pennsylvania 1758 & repulsed Cherokee attack on Fort Dobbs in February 1760. He was commissioned general, 1771. Buried at Castle Hayne, Bladen Co.
Present by the Survey of Colonial Wars of the United States of North Carolina on the Occasion of the French & Indian War.

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Fort Dobbs was an 18th-century fort in the Yadkin–Pee Dee River Basin region of the Province of North Carolina, near what is now Statesville in Iredell County. Used for frontier defense during and after the French and Indian War, the fort was built to protect the British settlers of the western portion of what was then Rowan County, and served as a vital outpost for soldiers, traders, and colonial officials. Fort Dobbs' primary structure was a blockhouse with log walls, surrounded by a palisade and moat. It was intended to provide protection against Cherokee, Catawba, Shawnee, Delaware and French raids into North Carolina.

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