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Raid on Robinson Run (1782)

Massacres in the American Revolutionary War
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The Raid on Robinson Run was a frontier raid in September 1782 at the homestead of Gabriel Walker along Robinson Run in what is now southwestern Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. A Native American war party of about twenty-five surprised household members working near the cabin and in the fields and captured five children. The cabin was plundered and burned. The raiders then moved toward the nearby fortified refuge known as Ewing's Fort, also described as the blockhouse of James Ewing, where neighbors had gathered after the alarm was raised. Two of the youngest captives were killed within sight of the refuge, and three others, a boy and two girls, were carried northwest to British held posts and later returned at the end of the Revolutionary War.

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