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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.
Tewea, better known by his English name Captain Jacobs, (d.September 8, 1756) was a Lenape chief during the French and Indian War. [1]: 174 Jacobs received his English name from a Pennsylvanian settler named Arthur Buchanan, who thought the chief resembled a "burly German in Cumberland County."
Fort Hamilton was a stockaded fort built during the French and Indian War to protect Pennsylvania settlers in the area of what is now Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.The fort was named for James Hamilton, former Mayor of Philadelphia, and former and subsequent Deputy Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania.
Kittanning (Lenape Kithanink; pronounced [kitˈhaːniŋ]) was an 18th-century Native American village in the Ohio Country, located on the Allegheny River at present-day Kittanning, Pennsylvania. The village was at the western terminus of the Kittanning Path , an Indian trail that provided a route across the Alleghenies between the Ohio and ...
Allegheny River Lock and Dam No. 7 is a historic lock and fixed-crest dam complex located at East Franklin Township, Pennsylvania and Kittanning in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. [2] It was built between 1928 and 1930 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers , and consists of the lock, dam, esplanade, and Operations Building.
Kittanning Coal, coal seams in the Kittanning cyclothem of the Pennsylvanian Epoch; Kittanning Expedition, a raid during the French and Indian War that led to the destruction of the American Indian village of Kittanning; Kittanning Gap, a gap at the summit of Allegheny Ridge in Central Pennsylvania, United States
Captain Jacobs was reported killed during the battle, however this was later proved untrue. He was killed during the Kittanning Expedition on 8 September 1756. [13] Within a week of the battle, Governor Robert Hunter Morris issued a formal Declaration of War against the Delawares and established a bounty for the scalps of Indians. On 15 April a ...
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. [3] Lenape chiefs Shingas and Captain Jacobs launched dozens of Shawnee and Delaware raids against British colonial settlements, [4] killing and capturing hundreds of colonists and destroying settlements across western and central ...