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The Battle of Wyoming, also known as the Wyoming Massacre, was a military engagement during the American Revolutionary War between Patriot militia and a force of Loyalist soldiers and Iroquois warriors. 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 ...
July 3: Wyoming Massacre. July 3 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Wyoming, also known as the Wyoming Massacre, takes place near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, ending in a terrible defeat of the local colonists. July 4 – American Revolutionary War: George Rogers Clark takes Kaskaskia.
Wyoming Monument in 2013. Wyoming Commemorative Association was founded in 1878 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Wyoming (also known as the Wyoming Valley Massacre). This American Revolutionary War battle was fought on July 3, 1778, near Wilkes-Barre in present-day Exeter, Pennsylvania.
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. The engagement ended in defeat for the Patriots, and considerable brutality followed the ...
May 25–30, 1778: Rhode Island: British victory Battle of Cobleskill: May 30, 1778: New York: British-Iroquois victory Battle of Monmouth: June 28, 1778: New Jersey: Draw: British break off engagement and continue retreat to New York Battle of Alligator Bridge: June 30, 1778: East Florida: British victory Battle of Wyoming: July 3, 1778 ...
Battle of Cobleskill (May 30, 1778) Battle of Wyoming (July 3, 1778) Attack on German Flatts (September 17, 1778) Baylor massacre (September 27, 1778) Battle of Edgar's Lane (September 30, 1778) Raid on Unadilla and Onaquaga (October 2, 1778 – October 16, 1778) Carleton's Raid (October 24, 1778 – November 14, 1778) Cherry Valley massacre ...
At the Battle of Wyoming on July 3, 1778, between 300 and 400 Patriot militia and Continentals were thoroughly routed by Butler's forces. The battle is frequently referred to as the Wyoming Massacre due to the large number of American soldiers who were scalped and killed by the Seneca as they fled the battlefield. [6]
Battle of Wyoming † Captain Lazarus Stewart (July 4, 1734 – July 3, 1778) was an 18th-century Pennsylvanian frontiersman, a leader of the Paxton Boys (a group of Scots-Irish militants who massacred a number of Susquehannock in 1763), and a prominent commander on the Yankee (i.e., Connecticut) side in the Pennamite–Yankee War .