In consequence of repeated injuries from the white people of
Pennsylvania, the
Delaware Indians had become bitterly hostile in 1756.
They committed many depredations, and early in September
Col. John Armstrong marched against the
Indian town of
Kittanning, on the
Alleghany River, about 45 miles northeast from
Pittsburg.
He approached the village stealthily, and fell upon the Indians furiously with about 300 men at 3 A. M.,
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Sept. 8, 1756.
The
Indians refusing the quarter which was offered them,
Colonel Armstrong ordered their wigwams to be set on fire.
Their leader,
Captain Jacobs, and his wife and son were killed.
About forty Indians were destroyed, and eleven English prisoners were released.
