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The Regulator Movement in North Carolina, also known as the Regulator Insurrection, War of Regulation, and War of the Regulation, was an uprising in Provincial North Carolina from 1766 to 1771 in which citizens took up arms against colonial officials whom they viewed as corrupt.
Gideon, who was leading the Regulators, participated in a clash with a group of constables near Marrs Bluff on the Pee Dee River on July 25, 1767. This event exacerbated the tension between the Governor and the Regulators. Gideon Gibson and the Regulators were portrayed negatively by the South Carolina Gazette 200 miles away in Charleston.
The Regulators had been operating in North Carolina for some time, and in 1770 it was reported that the group dragged Hooper through the streets in Hillsborough during a riot. Hooper advised that Governor Tryon use as much force as was necessary to stamp out the rebels and even accompanied the troops at the Battle of Alamance in 1771. [ 7 ]
The site of the Battle of Alamance, including red flags, to the right, marking militia positions and an 1880 commemorative monument, in the distance, to the far left.. The Battle of Alamance, which took place on May 16, 1771, was the final confrontation of the Regulator Movement, a rebellion in colonial North Carolina over various issues with the Colonial Government.
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-6699-3. Kars, Marjoleine. (2002). Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-4999-6. Lefler, Hugh T.; Powell, William S. (1973). Colonial North Carolina: A History ...
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