Fort Franklin was a stockaded fort constructed at the order of Benjamin Franklin in 1756, in response to a series of raids by Native American war parties on Pennsylvania settlements in late 1755, in p
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Northampton massacre
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The Northampton massacre was a series of attacks on white settlers in Northampton County, Pennsylvania in December 1755. These attacks terrified the population, who then demanded military protection f
Fort Franklin (Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania)
…Kittatinny Mountains from the Susquehanna to the temporary line, can secure the lives and property of the inhabitants of this country." In December 1755, a series of attacks on people in the area east of what is now Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania had terrified the population, who then demanded military protection from the…
1880 portrait of Daniel Brodhead as a Continental Army officer