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The battle took place in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania on July 3, 1778 in what is now Luzerne County. The result was an overwhelming defeat for the Americans.
The Battle of Wyoming was also known as the Wyoming Massacre. It was an encounter between American Patriots and Loyalists accompanied by Iroquois raiders that took place in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania.
Wyoming Massacre, (July 3, 1778), during the American Revolution, the killing of 360 American settlers in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania, part of the stepped-up British campaign of frontier attacks in the West. In early June, Colonel John Butler led a force of 1,000 loyalists and Iroquois.
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The monument marks the location of the bones of victims from the Battle of Wyoming (also known as the Wyoming Massacre), which took place on July 3, 1778. Local Patriots banded together to defend the area against a raid by Loyalist and indigenous forces.
Jul 12, 2021 · On July 3, 1778, in a pristine valley of northeastern Pennsylvania, called Wyoming, “where all save the spirit of man was Devine”, an American militia of mostly aged and young farmers, along with a small company of Continental ‘regulars’, marched out to face a near equal number of battle-tested British Tories and their Native American allies.
WYOMING VALLEY MASSACRE, PENNSYLVANIA. 3-4 July 1778. Although the name was applied to most of the northern quarter of Pennsylvania, the Wyoming Valley of the Revolution was the twenty-five-mile stretch of the Susquehanna River below the mouth of the Lackawanna River, including modern Wilkes-Barre. "Wyoming" comes from the Delaware Indian name ...
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Known by some as the Battle of Wyoming and others as the Wyoming Valley Massacre, oral histories of the assault claim that the victims were captured by Iroquois warriors and taken to a woman identified as "Queen Esther" who sought to avenge the death of her son.
