JULY 27:

July 27, 1755: Indians attack the settlers at Fort Sartwell in Vernon, Connecticut.
 

July 27, 1813:  A battle took place on Burnt Corn Creek, not far from the Escambia River. Creeks led by Chief Peter McQueen, had just recently purchased guns and ammo in Pensacola from the British. While en route back to their villages, they are attacked by Colonel James Caller and 180 militiamen. After initially gaining the upper hand, someone in the militia called for a retreat, and some of the Americans took off at a run. Taking advantage of the situation, the Red Stick Creeks were able to escape. This battle would encourage the Creeks to further battles with the Americans. Six men in McQueen's group and two soldiers will die in the fighting. This first fight of the Creek War would be called "The Battle of Burnt Corn."

July 27, 1874:  Gold found in the Black Hills.
 

BACKGROUND:

George Armstrong Custer announces the discovery of gold in the Black Hills of Dakota, setting off a stampede of fortune-hunters into this most sacred part of Lakota territory. Although the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty requires the government to protect Lakota lands from white intruders, federal authorities work instead to protect the miners already crowding along the path Custer blazed for them, which they call "Freedom's Trail" and the Lakota call "Thieve's Road."

From:  "The West", at http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/events/1870_1880.htm

*****

Black Hills Gold history actually began in 1874. An expeditionary force of one thousand men were led by the infamous George Armstrong Custer into the Black Hills area, a 100-square-mile region held sacred by the Sioux. A few months after the group's arrival, a man named Horatio N. Ross discovered gold along French Creek in the central Black Hills. One of the last great North American gold rushes inevitably followed.

White settlement of the region increased dramatically with the discovery of gold. The city of Deadwood grew out of this Wild West era of prospectors, saloons and legendary figures like Wild Bill Hickock and Calamity Jane.