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A bloody episode of the Kentucky border
By 1782 the American War of Independence was all but coming to its
close and with it the birth of a new nation and the loss of an
important colony for the British. The frontier settlements of
Kentucky lay at the farthest reaches of European expansion, far
away from the principal towns and cities of the established states,
on the eastern seaboard of the continent. This was the frontier of
its day where isolated farms, stockades, forts and villages were
constantly in peril of attack by Indian tribes, their white allies
and the British. Bryan's Station (sometimes called Bryant's
Station) was a fortified settlement of forty cabins founded in 1775
on the Elkhorn Creek. It withstood attack on several occasions but
in 1782, ten months after Cornwallis had surrendered at Yorktown,
it came under siege by Canadian British forces under Caldwell, the
renegade Simon Girty and 300 Shawnee Indians. The event was notable
for an outstanding feat of bravery by the women of the
settlement-which is of course recounted here in detail. When the
besiegers discovered that relief was on its way in the form of the
local militia they withdrew. After a pursuit of some 60 miles the
British and their allies turned and lay in ambush. The combat that
followed, known as the Battle of Blue Licks was disastrous for the
Americans who lost 83 killed or captured for negligible loss among
their enemy. Despite warnings from the veteran frontiersman Daniel
Boone, who was with them, the militia blundered into the ambush
losing nearly half their number including Boone's son, Israel, and
the expedition's commanders, Todd and Trigg. Boone barely escaped
on horseback, abandoning the body of his son who was mortally
wounded in the neck. The engagement, the worse defeat suffered by
Kentuckians during the war effectively ended the conflict in the
east.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
A bloody episode of the Kentucky border
By 1782 the American War of Independence was all but coming to its
close and with it the birth of a new nation and the loss of an
important colony for the British. The frontier settlements of
Kentucky lay at the farthest reaches of European expansion, far
away from the principal towns and cities of the established states,
on the eastern seaboard of the continent. This was the frontier of
its day where isolated farms, stockades, forts and villages were
constantly in peril of attack by Indian tribes, their white allies
and the British. Bryan's Station (sometimes called Bryant's
Station) was a fortified settlement of forty cabins founded in 1775
on the Elkhorn Creek. It withstood attack on several occasions but
in 1782, ten months after Cornwallis had surrendered at Yorktown,
it came under siege by Canadian British forces under Caldwell, the
renegade Simon Girty and 300 Shawnee Indians. The event was notable
for an outstanding feat of bravery by the women of the
settlement-which is of course recounted here in detail. When the
besiegers discovered that relief was on its way in the form of the
local militia they withdrew. After a pursuit of some 60 miles the
British and their allies turned and lay in ambush. The combat that
followed, known as the Battle of Blue Licks was disastrous for the
Americans who lost 83 killed or captured for negligible loss among
their enemy. Despite warnings from the veteran frontiersman Daniel
Boone, who was with them, the militia blundered into the ambush
losing nearly half their number including Boone's son, Israel, and
the expedition's commanders, Todd and Trigg. Boone barely escaped
on horseback, abandoning the body of his son who was mortally
wounded in the neck. The engagement, the worse defeat suffered by
Kentuckians during the war effectively ended the conflict in the
east.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
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