John Buchanan (frontiersman)
John Buchanan | |
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| Born | January 12, 1759 Harrisburg, Province of Pennsylvania, British America |
| Died | November 7, 1832 (aged 73) Buchanan's Station, Tennessee, U.S. (now Nashville) |
| Occupations | American pioneer, settler, frontiersman, farmer |
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Major John Buchanan (January 12, 1759 – November 7, 1832) was an American frontiersman and one of the founders of present-day Nashville, Tennessee. He is best known for defending his fort, Buchanan's Station, from an attack by a combined force of roughly 300 Chickamauga Cherokee, Muscogee Creek, and Shawnee warriors on September 30, 1792. The defenders of the stockade included fifteen gunmen and his wife, Sally Buchanan, (his second) who was heavily pregnant with their first child.