Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Martin's Station, not far from Ruddle's was similarly surprised, and surrendered. The settlers at Martin's Station could hear the gunfire at Ruddell's Fort and were not surprised when the British appeared. They stayed with the walls of the station as their best protection, though they were compelled to surrender. [3]
Martin's Station was a frontier fort originally located at nearby Rose Hill, Virginia. The station, consisting of several fortified cabins, was the only station between the start of the Wilderness Road at the blockhouse in Virginia and Crab Orchard on the edge of the Kentucky settlement – a distance of some 200 miles.
Along with Martin's Station, located on Stoner Creek near present-day Paris, the settlement became home to a large number of Pennsylvania German families over the next year. During the American Revolutionary War however, an Indian (including Shawnee ) raiding party of 600 - 900 led by British officer Captain Henry Bird and 150 British soldiers ...
Ruddle's Station [6] June 22, 1780 [7] near modern Cynthiana, Kentucky: American Revolutionary War Bird's invasion of Kentucky: 20+ Kingdom of Great Britain & Shawnee vs Kentucky settlers Long Run Massacre: September 13–14, 1781 near modern Eastwood, Kentucky: American Revolutionary War Western theater 60+ [conjectural]
In January 1781, Martin Wetzel, who was a captive of the Shawnee tribe, came with a party of seven Shawnee braves to steal horses at Bryan's Station, according to reports on a note by Colonel Levin Powell. Wetzel had helped organize a raid in the hopes of escaping.
Morgan's Raid (also the Calico Raid or Great Raid of 1863) was a diversionary incursion by Confederate cavalry into the Union states of Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia during the American Civil War. The raid took place from June 11 to July 26, 1863. It is named for the commander of the Confederate troops, Brigadier General John Hunt ...
Air raid sirens sounded on a South Korean island and residents ... A TV screen shows a file image of North Korea's missile launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South ...
The screenplay by John Lee Mahin and Martin Rackin was loosely based on the Harold Sinclair (1907-1966) 1956 novel of historical fiction of the same name, a fictionalized version of the famous Grierson's Raid by Federal cavalry in April–May 1863 riding southward through Mississippi and around the Mississippi River fortress of Vicksburg during ...