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  Two of the 231 (as of 2022) officially recognized Tribes of Alaska are the Tlingit or Lingít (TLING-kit, KLING-kit), Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. While some Tlingit are First Nations in Canada, the majority are Alaska Natives. The Yakutat Tlingit Tribe, the Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes, the Angoon Community Association, the Craig Tribal Association, the Hoonah Indian Association, the Ketchikan Indian Corporation, the Klawock Cooperative Association, the Organized Village of Kasaan, the Organized Village of Kake, the Organized Village of Saxman, the Petersburg Indian Association, Skagway Village, the Yakutat Tlingit Tribe, and the Wrangell Cooperative Association are among the Tlingit people, who speak the Tlingit language (Łingít, pronounced [ɬɪ̀nkɪ́tʰ]). Some members of the Sitka Tribe in Alaska and the Carcross/Tagish First Nation in the Yukon are of Tlingit ancestry. The Taku Tlingit are members of the Taku Riv...

  On March 2 and 3, 1776, the American Revolutionary War's Battle of the Rice Boats, also known as the Battle of Yamacraw Bluff, was fought on land and at sea along the Savannah River, which separates the Province of Georgia from the Province of South Carolina. Georgia and South Carolina Patriot militias faced off against a tiny Royal Navy fleet in the conflict. The British Army was under siege in Boston in December 1775. A fleet of the Royal Navy was sent to Georgia to buy rice and other commodities. When this navy arrived, the colonial insurgents in charge of Georgia's government arrested James Wright, the British Royal Governor, and resisted the British taking possession of and removing supply ships that were moored at Savannah. The majority of the supply ships were successfully seized by the British, but several were reclaimed and others were burnt to avoid their acquisition. Governor Wright managed to get out of his captivity and make it to a ship in the fleet. Although Sa...

  The American Revolutionary War's Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge was a small engagement that took place on February 27, 1776, close to Wilmington, North Carolina (now Pender County). The conflict changed course when the militia army of the North Carolina Provincial Congress defeated troops from British governor Josiah Martin and Tristan Worsley at Moore's; less than five months later, American independence was proclaimed. News of the Battles of Lexington and Concord sparked a renewed drive to recruit Loyalists in the interior of North Carolina, while patriots in the province also started organizing for the Continental Army and militia. In January 1776, Martin ordered his militia to gather in preparation for the British Army's anticipated invasion to the region. The weakly equipped loyalists were compelled to engage them at Moore's Creek Bridge, about 18 miles (29 km) north of Wilmington, when revolutionary militia and Continental soldiers gathered to blockade the j...