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Anderson's Grove: A 2003 report by the Susquehanna River Basin Commission proposed that the Battle of Sideling Hill took place near Maddensville (a neighborhood of Springfield Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania), at the confluence of Little Aughwick Creek and Sideling Hill Creek at a place now known as Anderson's Grove. [1]: 25
At the beginning of the French and Indian War, Braddock's defeat at the Battle of the Monongahela left Pennsylvania without a professional military force. [5] Lenape chiefs Shingas and Captain Jacobs launched dozens of Shawnee and Delaware raids against British colonial settlements, [6] killing and capturing hundreds of colonists and destroying settlements across western and central ...
Pages in category "Conflicts in 1756" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. ... Battle of Sideling Hill; Siege of Calcutta; Siege of Fort St ...
At the beginning of the French and Indian War, Edward Braddock's defeat left Pennsylvania without a professional military force. [1] Lenape chiefs Shingas and Captain Jacobs launched dozens of Shawnee and Delaware raids against British colonial settlements, [2] killing and capturing hundreds of colonists and destroying settlements across western and central Pennsylvania. [3]
List of air operations during the Battle of Europe. List of Allied attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz; List of strategic bombing over Germany in World War II; List of strategic bombing over the United Kingdom in World War II; List of amphibious assault operations; List of military operations on ice; List of naval battles
The Pennsylvania Gazette of 12 June 1756 reported the following account of the fort's destruction: "We have advice from Carlisle that on Friday night last (June 11th) Capt. Bigham's fort in Tuscarora Valley was destroyed by the Indians. There is no particular account come to hand, only in general it is said that all that were in it are either ...
The Kittanning Expedition, also known as the Armstrong Expedition or the Battle of Kittanning, was a raid during the French and Indian War that led to the destruction of the American Indian village of Kittanning, which had served as a staging point for attacks by Lenape warriors against colonists in the British Province of Pennsylvania.
The Northkill settlement was on the edge of the Blue Mountain, the legal boundary of European settlement according to agreements with Native Americans.During the French and Indian War, Lenape warriors under the command of three French scouts attacked the Northkill settlement on September 19, 1757. [5]