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Affair at Captina Creek (Paperback)
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Affair at Captina Creek (Paperback)
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Loot Price R560
Discovery Miles 5 600
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With the end of the Revolutionary War, the United States not only
gained independence from the British Empire but also secured
control of a sizable territory west of the Allegheny Mountains.
Native Americans of the Ohio River Valley refused to accept claims
of the fledgling nation and militantly resisted white settlements
in their homelands. Constant border strife turned into open war in
the spring of 1791. The Shawnee, emboldened by their defeat of
General Josiah Harmar the previous autumn, crossed the Ohio River
and struck the settlement of Ohio County (West) Virginia and
Washington County, Pennsylvania. Affair at Captina Creek describes
in stirring detail a little-known incident of this turbulent time
on the American Frontier. Following the massacre of several young
girls in Washington County, a company of frontier rangers was
dispatched from Ryerson's Station to nearby Baker's Fort with the
intention of retaliation. Baker's Fort stood on the Ohio River in
what is now Marshall County, West Virginia. As the rangers tracked
the warriors down Captina's winding path, little did they know that
they were walking into an ambush from which many would not return.
Enoch has researched and reconstructed the events using original
documents and information gained during his travels through the
region. Personal testimonies of those who survived the Battle of
Captina Creek have been combined with second-hand accounts of other
settlers, contemporary newspaper articles, excerpts from the
biography of General Duncan McArthur and the Lyman Draper
Manuscripts. Photographs, illustrations, detailed maps, and a full
name index add to the value of this work.
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