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The American Revolution was a defining moment in the history of Pennsylvania. Neighbor turned against neighbor amidst a desperate civil war in colonial America. Indigenous societies were uprooted ...
But the Indian warriors, under the nominal command of French officers, did not massacre everybody. They captured all the men, women and children they could, made off with them on the cold journey ...
In 1758, during the French and Indian War, the future president saved lives by stepping into the middle of a deadly skirmish in Pennsylvania ...
At Fort Ligonier on Friday, excitement was in the air as it unveiled a new exhibit and talked about the ongoing archaeological work surrounding what is called George Washington's "friendly fire ...
More precisely, they began in the aftermath of the 1763 Treaty of Paris, which ended the Seven Years’ War — what was once referred to as the French and Indian War and what scholars often refer ...
Though Troiani is currently engaged in works detailing the Revolution, in the past, he has produced rich studies of soldiers and scenes of the French & Indian War, American Civil War, War of 1812 ...
Col. James Burd made an inspection tour of forts on the Pennsylvania frontier during the French and Indian War from Feb. 16 to March 10, 1758. Burd was a colonial American soldier who played an imp… ...