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Wyoming Valley
valley, Pennsylvania, United States
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Luzerne county
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The Wyoming Valley was the scene of the Pennamite-Yankee Wars (1769–84), a protracted struggle for land between colonists from Pennsylvania and Connecticut. During the American Revolution British and Indian forces slaughtered 360 settlers gathered at Forty Fort in the Wyoming Massacre (July 3, 1778). Located near…
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Wyoming Massacre
- In Wyoming Massacre
…360 American settlers in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania, part of the stepped-up British campaign of frontier attacks in the West.
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