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American Revolution Podcast

ARP313 Crawford Expedition

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

Education, History

4.6938 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In the spring of 1782, Colonel William Crawford leads an army of Pennsylvania Militia into Ohio Territory to destroy Indian villages. Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode. Book Recommendation of the Week: The Battle of Upper Sandusky, 1782, by Eric Sterner. Online Recommendation of the Week: Narratives of a late expedition against the Indians: with an account of the barbarous execution of Col. Crawford, https://archive.org/details/narrativesoflate00brac Join American Revolution Podcast on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmRevPodcast Ask your American Revolution Podcast questions on Quora: https://amrevpod.quora.com Join the Facebook group, American Revolution Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271 Follow the podcast on Twitter @AmRevPodcast Join the podcast mail list: https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy ARP T-shirts and other merch: http://tee.pub/lic/AmRevPodcast Support this podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AmRevPodcast or via PayPal http://paypal.me/AmRevPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Sertia Bronin gives a magnificent performance.

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The waves roll into the shore in time with my beating heart.

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0:49.0

Book tickets now. Hello and thank you for joining the American Revolution. This week episode 313, the Crawford Expedition.

0:53.4

Back in episode 310, we covered the ongoing war in the West

0:57.2

when militia around Fort Pitt

0:59.2

massacred a Christian community of Moravian Indians and whites in Nadden Hooten in what is today Ohio.

1:05.8

The militia were upset over repeated attacks on their homes and settlements by various

1:11.0

groups of Indians who were being encouraged in such attacks by the British forces

1:16.1

centered around Detroit. General William Irving took command at Fort Pitt just weeks after

1:22.4

the Naddenhooden Massacre.

1:24.5

He had to deal with the fallout from those events, but couldn't really do much about it.

1:29.4

His tiny continental garrison was really no threat to anyone. In fact, he feared that he and his garrison would be attacked by the local militia if he did not share the anti-Indian sentiments that were widely held.

1:42.8

Now the basis for those sentiments was the fact that the region was in a constant state of alert.

1:48.0

War parties from what is today, Ohio, Michigan, and Canada regularly traveled to the area around Fort Pitt where they killed

1:56.6

and often tortured, murdered, and mutilated, isolated families on the small farms in the area.

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