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The Tryon County Regiment was authorized on August 14, 1775 by the Province of North Carolina Congress. It was subordinate to the Salisbury District Brigade of militia. The regiment was engaged in battles and skirmishes against the British during the American Revolution in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee between 1775 and ...
- Tryon County militia
Militia regiments. Early in 1772, the Colony of New York...
- Tryon County, North Carolina
Tryon County is a former county which was located in the...
- Tryon County militia
The Tryon County Regiment was authorized on August 14, 1775 by the Province of North Carolina Congress. It was subordinate to the Salisbury District Brigade of militia. The regiment was engaged in battles and skirmishes against the British during the American Revolution in North Carolina, South Caro
Colonel William Graham (1742 – 1835) was commander of the Tryon County and Lincoln County Regiments of the North Carolina militia and political leader from North Carolina during the American Revolution.
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- North Carolina militia
Lieutenant-General William Tryon (8 June 1729 – 27 January 1788) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as governor of North Carolina from 1764 to 1771 and the governor of New York from 1771 to 1777. He also served during the Seven Years' War, the Regulator Movement, and the American War of Independence .
On February 8, 1779, the Tryon County Regiment was abolished, and the existing units were placed into the newly-created Lincoln County Regiment and Rutherford County Regiment, with new field officers over each of the two new regiments. Therefore, the Tryon County Regiment of Militia ceased to exist. Interestingly, Loyalists in the area refused ...
