Gnadenhutten massacre

When

8 Mar 1782

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

96

Coordinates

40.35° N, 81.44° W

Description

massacre

1782 killing of Christian Lenape by American soldiers during the Revolutionary War

The Gnadenhutten massacre, also known as the Moravian massacre, was the killing of 96 pacifist Moravian Christian Indians by U.S. militiamen from Pennsylvania, under the command of David Williamson, on March 8, 1782, at the Moravian missionary village of Gnadenhutten, Ohio Country, during the American Revolutionary War.

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