Daniel Boone Escaped Death When He Served In Military
Another fact about Daniel Boone is that he escaped death as a soldier. Boone joined an NC militia company as a teamster and blacksmith when the French and Indian War (1754–1763) broke out between the French, British, and their respective Indian allies. At the Ohio River, a conflict between native Indians and French colonists erupted. Boon sided with the French, and he enlisted in General Edward Braddock's army in 1755. At the Monongahela Battle, the Braddock's army suffered a humiliating loss and lost a number of soldiers to death or wounds. Boone was able to flee the conflict as quickly as he could and avoid dying. After the defeat, Boone went back home and wed Rebecca Bryan, a Yadkin Valley neighbor, on August 14, 1756. The couple raised eight children of deceased relatives while also raising their own ten children, originally residing in a hut on his father's farm.
Conflict sprang out between British colonists and the Cherokees, who had previously been their allies in the French and Indian War, in 1758. The Boones and many other families moved north to Culpeper County, Virginia, after Cherokees invaded the Yadkin Valley. Throughout this "Cherokee Uprising," Boone participated in combat as a soldier of the North Carolina militia, intermittently working on the border of North Carolina under Captain Hugh Waddell until 1760.
