Monument to, and history of the Mingo Indians; facts and traditions about this tribe, their wars, chiefs, camps, villages and trails. Monument dedicated to their memory near the village of Mingo, in Tygarts River Valley of West Virginia....
The Battle Of Point Pleasant - Shawnee vs Virginia Militia November 14, 2024 The Battle of Point Pleasant is often regarded as a pivotal event in American history. In this video, we delve into the events of October 10, 1774, when Chief Cornstalk led 500 Shawnee and Mingo warriors to ambush...
In the late spring of 1763, Delaware, Shawnee and Mingo warriors, inspired by Ottawa war leader Pontiac, laid siege to Fort Pitt, an outpost at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in present-day downtown Pittsburgh. The fort’s commander, Capt. Simeon Ecuyer, reported in...
Queen Alliquippa was a key ally of the British leading up to the French and Indian War. She and Washington crossed paths again in July 1754, when he was under siege at Fort Necessity. Aliquippa and her son Kanuksusy, and warriors from her band of Mingo Seneca traveled to Fort Necessity...
August 20, 1794 - General Anthony Wayne, commander of the Ohio-Indiana area, routs a confederacy of Indian tribes, including Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi, at Fallen Timbers on the Maumee River, causing a retreat in disarray. September 1, 1794 ...
“That himself, his Brother Richard, and John Craig, in the begining of February last, were taken by nine Deleware Indians from a Plantation two Miles from McDowell’s Mill, and carried to the Kittanning Town on the Ohio; that on his way thither he met Shingas with a Party of thirty ...