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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.
1778 (MDCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1778th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 778th year of the 2nd millennium, the 78th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1770s decade. As of the start ...
March 7, 1778: Barbados: British victory Battle of Quinton's Bridge: March 18, 1778: New Jersey: British victory North Channel Naval Duel: April 24, 1778: Great Britain: American victory Battle of Crooked Billet: May 1, 1778: Pennsylvania: British victory Battle of Barren Hill: May 20, 1778: Pennsylvania: Indecisive Mount Hope Bay raids: May 25 ...
By April 1778, the Seneca were raiding settlements along the Allegheny River and the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. In late May, Joseph Brant raided Cobleskill in Tryon County, New York. In early June, Butler, Sayenqueraghta, and Brant met at Tioga Point at the confluence of the Chemung River and the North Branch of the Susquehanna River.
The siege of Boonesborough was a military engagement which took place in September 1778 during the American Revolutionary War.On September 7, Shawnee chief Blackfish, who was allied to the British, led an attack on the Kentucky settlement of Boonesborough.
Events from the year 1778 in Great Britain. Incumbents. Monarch – George III; Prime Minister – Frederick North, Lord North [1] Events. 18 ...
General Henry Clinton by Andrea Soldi. Washington's preference for a professional standing army rather than a militia had been another source of criticism. [20] He had seen his army dissolve in the fall of 1775 as short-term enlistments expired, and blamed his defeat in the Battle of Long Island in August 1776 in part on a poorly performing militia. [21]
The Battle of Rhode Island (also known as the Battle of Quaker Hill [3]) took place on August 29, 1778. Continental Army and Militia forces under the command of Major General John Sullivan had been besieging the British forces in Newport, Rhode Island, which is situated on Aquidneck Island, but they had finally abandoned their siege and were withdrawing to the northern part of the island.