Draper's Meadow massacre

Quand

30 juil. 1755

Type

Massacre

Morts

4

Coordonnées

37.38° N, 80.72° W

Description

1755 attack by Shawnee warriors on a Virginia pioneer settlement

1755 attack by Shawnee warriors on a Virginia pioneer settlement

The Draper's Meadow Massacre was an attack in July 1755, when the Draper's Meadow settlement in southwest Virginia, at the site of present-day Blacksburg, was raided by a group of Shawnee warriors, who killed at least four people including an infant, and captured five more. The Indians brought their hostages to Lower Shawneetown, a Shawnee village in Kentucky.

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