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On May 16, 1771, some two thousand Regulators were precipitated
by Husband into the Battle of Alamance, which took place in a
district settled largely by a rough and ignorant type of Germans,
many of whom Husband had lured to swell his mob. Opposed to him,
were eleven hundred of Governor Tryon's troops, officered by such
patriots as Griffith Rutherford, Hugh Waddell, and Francis Nash.
During an hour's engagement about twenty Regulators were killed,
while the Governor's troops had nine killed and sixty-one
wounded. Six of the leaders were hanged. The rest took the oath
of allegiance which Tryon administered.
It has been said about the Regulators that they were not cast
down by their defeat at Alamance but "like the mammoth, they
shook the bolt from their brow and crossed the mountains," but
such flowery phrases do not seem to have been inspired by facts.
Nor do the records show that "fifteen hundred Regulators"
arrived at Watauga in 1771, as has also been stated. Nor are the
names of the leaders of the Regulation to be found in the list of
signatures affixed to the one "state paper" of Watauga which was
preserved and written into historic annals. Nor yet do those
names appear on the roster of the Watauga and Holston men who, in
1774, fought with Shelby under Andrew Lewis in the Battle of
Point Pleasant.
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