Doublehead, one of the most feared warriors of the Cherokees during the Chickamauga wars.
Their act was in imitation of the Iroquois, particularly the Mohawk, who did so to intimidate their enemies (especially during the Beaver Wars).
There, Benge negotiated the surrender of the garrison and its defenders with the promise of safe passage; Doublehead and his band violated the parole by immediately attacking and killing them all, men, women, and children, indiscriminately, as soon as they were outside the small fort, over the pleas of Benge, John Watts, and James Vann.
The Ridge also helped bring about the second major revision change to the Cherokee "Blood Law", which was provoked largely by the assassination of Doublehead at Hiwassee Garrison near the Cherokee Agency (now Calhoun, Tennessee in August 1807.