On this day 250 years ago in Ohio, 400 frontier militia under the command of Major Angus MacDonald were marching back to Fort Fincastle, Virginia (now Wheeling, West Virginia) after destroying the Shawnee village of Wakatomika and nearby Shawnee and Mingo villages. MacDonald’s expedition spared nearby Delaware villages because the Delaware were not at war with the Virginia colonists. Despite skirmishing with Shawnee and Mingo warriors throughout the expedition to Wakatomika, there were few casualties on eiher side. MacDonald reported that he lost only two men killed and six wounded and the Indians similarly lost few warriors.
Major MacDonald and the company captains under his command — George Rogers Clark, Daniel Morgan, Michael Cresap, William Linn, James Wood, John Stephenson, Henry Hoagland, and Hancock Lee — would all continue to serve as militia officers or Continental Army officers in the Revolution. Clark and Morgan would become two of the most famous military officers of the Revolution.
Source:
Williams, Glenn F. , Dunmore’s War at pp. 184-193.
Also on this day 250 years ago, the 20-gun HMS Scarborough arrived at Boston Harbor to join the British fleet blockading the Port of Boston.
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