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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.
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 ...
The borough is located on the east bank of the Allegheny River, founded on the site of the eighteenth-century Lenape (Delaware) village of Kittanning at the western end of the Kittanning Path, an ancient Native American path. In 1756, the village was destroyed by John Armstrong Sr. at the Battle of Kittanning during the French and Indian War.
In response, the province's militia went on the offensive for the first time with the Kittanning Expedition: On September 8, 1756, a Pennsylvania regiment led by Colonel John Armstrong raided the Lenape stronghold village of Kittanning (where unknowingly, some of the Penn's Creek massacre captives were being held), burning it to the ground [44 ...
The warriors were taking their captives back to their base at Kittanning when they were ambushed by the militia, but with the help of reinforcements, the Lenape fought off the militia and escaped. [3]: 542–545 The battle is significant because it was the first engagement involving Pennsylvania Militia after Braddock's defeat. [4]
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
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."
Armstrong was born on October 13, 1717, in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Ireland, parents not determined, who married in 1704. [1] He was one of approximately 15 children born to his parents that included: Margaret Armstrong (1737–1817), who married Rev. George Duffield (1732–1790), [2] and Rebecca Armstrong (1738–1828), who married James Turner (1737–1803).