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Pennamite-Yankee Wars

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Luzerne county

In Luzerne
… was the scene of the Pennamite-Yankee Wars (1769–84), a protracted struggle for land between colonists from Pennsylvania and Connecticut. During the American Revolution British and Indian forces slaughtered 360 settlers gathered at Forty Fort in the Wyoming Massacre (July 3, 1778). Located near Hazleton, the Eckley Miners’ Village is a…
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Wilkes-Barre

In Wilkes-Barre
The community survived the Pennamite-Yankee Wars, fought (1769–84) between Pennsylvania and Connecticut settlers over rival land claims, and conflicts with the Tories and Iroquois Indians, which culminated in the slaughter of settlers in the Wyoming Massacre (July 3, 1778) during the American Revolution. The punitive American expedition of 1779,…
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