The Wyoming Monument

The Monument marks the grave site of the bones of victims of the Wyoming Massacre, which took place on July 3, 1778. Local residents banded together to defend the area against an invasion of British Tories as well as pro-Tory Native Americans. The battle ended in defeat for the colonial fighters and considerable brutality followed the actual Battle. In 1833, the bones were reinterred in a vault under the present Monument. The monument is located in the borough of Wyoming, Pennsylvania.

Keywords

cavalry, statue, monument, Memorial, Revolutionary War battle, battle of wyoming valley massacre, british indian native american attack, common mass grave

Galleries

1763-1788 American Revolution Monuments and Grave Sites, Pennsylvania

Source

Benson John Lossing, ed. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 10) (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1912)

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