S05E10: The Kittanning Raid of 1756 - a podcast by Brady J. Crytzer

In 1756 the Colony of Pennsylvania was at war. With the
incursion of the French, the Western Delaware peoples of the Ohio Country
raided and burned the frontier villages of William Penn’s Peaceable Kingdom.
Although the colonial government was staunchly Quaker and did not believe in a
standing army, the efforts of Benjamin Franklin rallied the province into
action. In September of 1756 Colonel John Armstrong led 300 frontiersmen into
the wilderness to raid and destroy the Delaware village of Kittanning. Although
celebrated at the time, modern historians question the Kittanning Raid’s true
motivations and effectiveness. On this episode we discuss the Kittanning Raid
of 1756.

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