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Aug 2, 2018 · Area History: Battle and Massacre af Wyoming: Luzerne (then Northumberland) Co, PA. HISTORICAL ADDRESS at the WYOMING MONUMENT 3d of July 1878 on the 100th Anniversary of the BATTLE AND MASSACRE OF WYOMING by Steuben Jenkins Wilkes-Barre, PA Printed by Robert Baur, 104 Main Street
The unit also gained an exceptional reputation for brutality. John Butler personally commanded the Rangers at the Battle of Wyoming (in Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Valley), which saw the execution of more than three hundred Continentals, and his son Walter took the blame for a similar event at Cherry Valley. But though Walter was unceremoniously ...
I use the term the Battle of Wyoming over the Wyoming Massacre because of the tendency to label any act of violence by Native Americans against whites as a “massacre.” Thus, within this thesis, the Battle of Wyoming refers to the actual battle fought on July 3, while the Wyoming Massacre refers to the sensational legend about the events
Mar 5, 2020 · The battle took place in July of 1778 in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania and was fought between the Americans and the joint forces of the British and the Iroquois Indians. The Native-British force outnumbered the Americans and demanded that they surrender. The Americans refused and the two sides fought a short battle.
Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley became the scene of an intense inter-colonial struggle in 1769 when settlers from Connecticut, which had claimed the northern third of the colony in its 1662 charter, began a protracted battle against Pennsylvania settlers over title to the land.
The Battle of Wyoming, or Wyoming Massacre, occured in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania on July 3, 1778, between American Patriots and their Loyalist and Iroquois foes. At least 300 Patriots were killed in the battle.
Bartholomew Weeks (c.1746 - 1778) was the son of Jonathan Weeks and Abigail Wildman. He was killed, with others of his family, in the massacre at Wilkes-Barre, PA, during the Wyoming Wars. (Wyoming, the state was named for this valley) View Bartholomew Weeks's genealogy profile. Added On: 7/3/2008.
