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The Second Siege of Fort Henry was a three-day engagement during the American Revolutionary War that began on September 11, 1782. A force of about 260 Wyandot, Shawnee, Mingo and Lenape attacked Fort Henry, an American fortification at what is now Wheeling, West Virginia.
In 1782, an Indian force along with some Loyalist soldiers attempted to capture Fort Henry. During this siege, Fort Henry's supply of ammunition was exhausted. The defenders decided to dispatch one of its men to secure more ammunition from the Zane homestead. Betty Zane volunteered for the dangerous task. During her departing run, she was ...
According to a historical marker in Wheeling, on September 11, 1782, the Zane family was under siege in Fort Henry by Native American allies of the British. During the siege, while Betty was loading a Kentucky rifle, her father was wounded and fell from the top of the fort right in front of her. The captain of the fort said, "We have lost two ...
Battle of Blue Licks: August 19, 1782: Virginia: British-Iroquois victory Battle of the Combahee River: August 27, 1782: South Carolina: British victory Action of 4 September 1782: September 4, 1782: France: British victory Action of 5 September 1782: 5 September 1782: Long Island: Inconclusive Siege of Fort Henry: September 11–13, 1782 ...
Siege of Fort Henry may refer to: Siege of Fort William Henry, a 1757 siege during the French and Indian War on the frontier between the British Province of New York and the French Province of Canada; Siege of Fort Henry (1777), a siege during the American Revolutionary War, in Virginia; Siege of Fort Henry (1782), a siege during the American ...
The fort, named for Virginia Governor Patrick Henry, was at first defended by only a small number of militia, as rumors of the Indigenous American attack had moved faster than the Indigenous Americans, and a number of militia companies had left the fort. The American settlers were successful in repulsing the Indigenous American attack.
Fort William Henry is just above "York" on the right side of the map. Fort William Henry, built in the fall of 1755, was a roughly square fortification with bastions on the corners in a design that was intended to repel Indian attacks, but it was not necessarily sufficient to withstand attack from an enemy that had artillery. Its walls were 30 ...
The Battle of Blue Licks, fought on August 19, 1782, ... West Virginia, during the Siege of Fort Henry. ...