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Coordinates: 41°19′14″N 75°49′08″W. The Battle of Wyoming was a military engagement during the American Revolutionary War between Patriot militia and a force of Loyalist soldiers and Indigenous warriors. The battle took place in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania on July 3, 1778 in what is now Luzerne County.
- July 3, 1778
- British-Indian victory
Battle Summary. 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.
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History. Encyclopedias almanacs transcripts and maps. Wyoming Valley Massacre, Pennsylvania. views 3,618,381 updated. Wyoming Valley Massacre, Pennsylvania. WYOMING VALLEY MASSACRE, PENNSYLVANIA. 3-4 July 1778.
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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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.
Learn how the Seneca and British rangers' massacre of settlers at the Battle of Wyoming helped fanned the flames of American Independence; and how General Sullivan’s retaliatory campaign of death and destruction by his troops through the Wyoming Valley into New York State because of the massacre at Wyoming, settled once and for all, the ...
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.
