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English: A photo taken by user 'westendtownsville' of the Townsville West End cemetery, which was then modified in Adobe Lightroom to enhance the image. Image taken from Church Street, West End. Image taken from Church Street, West End.
The Kentucky War Memorial is a memorial to Kentuckians who have died in all wars. On a high-point called the "State Mound" in Frankfort Cemetery in Frankfort, Kentucky, the memorial consists of a 65-foot-tall monument erected in 1850, nine low stone monuments built in a semi-circle, and two low straight monuments. The 1850 monument honors men ...
The Townsville mutiny was a mutiny by African American servicemen of the United States Army while serving in Townsville, Australia, during World War II. About 600 African American troops from the 96th Battalion, US Army Corps of Engineers , were stationed at a base outside of Townsville called Kelso Field.
The Long Run massacre occurred on 13 September 1781 at the intersection of Floyd's Fork creek with Long Run Creek, along the Falls Trace, a trail in what is now eastern Jefferson County, Kentucky. A day earlier, settlers at Painted Stone Station, established by Squire Boone , had learned that the fort was about to be raided by a large Indian ...
In a November 27, 1782 letter Clark reported the Indians had 10 killed; 7 captured and 2 whites retaken. His own loses were 1 killed and 1 wounded [ 5 ] Four years later, the Indian villages on the Mad River would be destroyed by Logan at the outset of the Northwest Indian War .
The Indians brought their hostages to Lower Shawneetown, a Shawnee village in Kentucky. One of the captives, Mary Draper Ingles, later escaped and returned home on foot through the wilderness. Although many of the circumstances of the massacre are uncertain, including the date of the attack, the event remains a dramatic story in the history of ...
One of four fountain monuments in Kentucky [15] 14: Christian: Latham Confederate Monument: 1887 Hopkinsville: In Riverside Cemetery [16] 15: Daviess: Confederate Monument in Owensboro: 1900 Owensboro: Sculpted by the noted George Julian Zolnay [17] 16: Daviess: Thompson and Powell Martyrs Monument: 1864 St. Joseph: In cemetery [18] 17: Fayette
His brother, Arahhot or "Unhappy Jake" was killed in the war with the Catawbas in 1744. John Petty or Sogogeghyata, was the youngest of his brothers and bore the name of a Shamokin Indian Trader. [7] John Logan's sister was known as the widow of Cajadies who was known as "the best hunter among all of the Indians" who died in November 1747.