ARP192 The Wyoming Valley Massacre

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

Education, History

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Colonel John Butler leads Butler's Rangers, along with various Iroquois warriors to the Wyoming Valley in what is today northeastern Pennsylvania. At the time, the land was disputed between Connecticut Yankees who supported the patriots and Pennsylvania Pennamites who backed the loyalists. With local Pennamite support, Colonel John Butler captures a Patriot fort. An opposing patriot force led by Colonel Zebulon Butler (no relation) attacks the invaders. The attacking patriots are quickly overwhelmed and take heavy casualties. Those taken prisoner are tortured and killed during the following night. Connecticut settlers end up surrendering four forts in the area and abandoning the Wyoming Valley to the loyalist Pennamites. Visit my site at https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com for more text, pictures, maps, and sources on this topic. Book Recommendation of the Week: Zebulon Butler: Hero of the Revolutionary Frontier, by Linda A. Fossler and James R. Williamson. Online Recommendation of the Week: Hayden, Horace E. The Massacre of Wyoming. The Acts of Congress for the Defense of the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, 1776-1778: with the Petitions of the Sufferers by the Massacre of July 3, 1778, for Congressional Aid, Wilkes-Barre Historical and Geological Society, 1895: https://archive.org/details/cu31924032753786 Follow the podcast on Twitter @AmRevPodcast Join the Facebook group, or follow the Facebook Page for American Revolution Podcast. American Revolution Podcast mail list: https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy Support this podcast on Patreon or via PayPal. Find more books at https://bookshop.org/shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.3	The Hello and thank you for joining the American Revolution.
0:49.0	Today episode 192, the Wyoming Valley Massacre.
0:54.4	After the British evacuated Philadelphia,
0:57.0	they consolidated their forces around New York City.
1:00.4	By early July 1778, General Clinton's army was still settling into New York following the Battle of Monmouth in Northern New Jersey.
1:10.0	General Washington moved his continentals into camps in northern New Jersey where they could
1:16.2	challenge any movements by the British out of New York City.
1:20.8	Although the British regulars were taking up defensive positions, that did not mean Americans were safe from attack.
1:28.0	British agents had been trying to encourage Indian tribes in Canada and upstate New York and along the Western Frontiers
1:36.5	to support the King's efforts to suppress the rebellion. The British warned tribal leaders that unchecked the colonists would take more of their
1:46.7	tribal land. They also gave some tribes hope of reclaiming lands that had been taken from them, especially to tribes who helped the
1:57.0	king during this rebellion.
1:59.6	Back in episodes 151 and 152, I talked about the mostly Native American force that was assembled under
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