| Battle of the Trough | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the French and Indian War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Shawnee and Delaware Indian warriors |
 British America | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Killbuck | Unknown | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 14 or 60–70 (differing accounts) | 16 or 18 (differing accounts) | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 3 dead (or many more); "several" wounded | 7 dead, 3 wounded | ||||||
The Battle of the Trough (March or April 1756) was a skirmish of the early French and Indian War (1754–63) fought between Native Americans and Anglo-American settlers in the valley of the South Branch Potomac River in what is now northern Hardy County, West Virginia,[1] USA.[2][3]
- ^ Until 1786, present day Hardy County, W.Va., was part of Hampshire County, Va.
- ^ Koontz, Louis Knott (1925), The Virginia Frontier, 1754–1763; The Johns Hopkins Press (Reprinted 2002 by Heritage Books, Inc.), pp 323–324.
- ^ Baker, Norman L. (2000), French & Indian War in Frederick County, Virginia.
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