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Peckuwe 1780
The Revolutionary War on the Ohio River Frontier
Peckuwe 1780
The Revolutionary War on the Ohio River Frontier
Description
The last in the Campaign series covering the Ohio Native American wars, this is the story behind the largest battle in the Western theatre of the American Revolutionary War.
As the Revolutionary War raged on fields near the Atlantic, Native Americans and British rangers fought American settlers on the Ohio River frontier in warfare of unsurpassed ferocity. When their attacks threatened to drive the Americans from their settlements in Kentucky, Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton and other frontiersmen guided an army of 970 Kentuckians into what is now Ohio to attack the principal Native American bases from which the raids emanated.
This superbly illustrated book traces Colonel George Rogers Clark's lightning expedition to destroy Chalawgatha and Peckuwe, and describes how on 8 August 1780 his Kentuckians clashed with an army of 450 Native Americans, under Black Hoof, Buckongahelas and Girty, at the battle of Peckuwe. It would be the largest Revolutionary War battle on the Ohio River frontier.
Table of Contents
2. Strategic Situation
3. Chronology
4. Commanders
5. Armies
6. Plans
7. Order of Battle
8. Campaign and Battle
9. The End of the Revolutionary War
10. Aftermath
11. The Battlefield Today
12. Bibliography
Product details
Published | Oct 18 2018 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 96 |
ISBN | 9781472828866 |
Imprint | Osprey Publishing |
Illustrations | Full colour maps; diagrams and illustrations throughout |
Series | Campaign |
Short code | CAM 327 |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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