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Author: Sipe, C. Hale (Chester Hale), b. 1880
Title: Fort Ligonier and its times: a history of the first English fort west of the Allegheny Mountains and an account of many thrilling, tragic, romantic, important but little known colonial and revolutionary events in the region where the winning of the West began ; based primarily on the Pennsylvania archives and colonial records
Print source: Fort Ligonier and its times a history of the first English fort west of the Allegheny Mountains and an account of many thrilling, tragic, romantic, important but little known colonial and revolutionary events in the region where the winning of the West began ; based primarily on the Pennsylvania archives and colonial records
Sipe, C. Hale (Chester Hale), b. 1880
Harrisburg, Pa: The Telegraph Press, 1932
Publication Info: Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, Digital Research Library
1999
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Subject terms:
Fort Ligonier (Pa.).
Westmoreland County (Pa.)--History.
Pennsylvania--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
URL: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?idno=00aee8917m;view=toc;c=pitttext

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Fort Ligonier and its times: a history of the first English fort west of the Allegheny Mountains and an account of many thrilling, tragic, romantic, important but little known colonial and revolutionary events in the region where the winning of the West began ; based primarily on the Pennsylvania archives and colonial records
[Titlepage]
Contents
List of Illustrations
Chapter I. Ligonier, the Loyalhanning of the Delawares
Chapter II. The Forbes Campaign--March Over the Mountains to the "Camp at Loyal Hannon"
Chapter III. The Forbes Campaign (Continued)--Grant's Defeat
Chapter IV. The Forbes Campaign (Continued) Attack on the "Camp at Loyal Hannon"
Chapter V. The Forbes Campaign (Continued) Christian Frederick Post at Loyalhanning
Chapter VI. The Forbes Campaign (Continued) Some Noted Soldiers at the "Camp at Loyal Hannon"
Chapter VII. The Forbes Campaign (Continued) The March from Loyal Hannon to Fort Duquesne
Chapter VIII. Fort Ligonier from the Fall of Fort Duquesne to the Opening of Pontiac's War
Chapter IX. The Principal Cause of Pontiac's War
Chapter X. Pontiac's War--The Storm Moves Towards Fort Ligonier
Chapter XI. Pontiac and Guyasuta's Warriors Attack Fort Ligonier
Chapter XII. Col. Bouquet Relieves Fort Ligonier and Pitt--Battle of Bushy Run
Chapter XIII. Fort Ligonier from 1763 to 1774--Further View of Early Westmoreland Settlements
Chapter XIV. Fort Ligonier and Westmoreland in 1774 and 1775--Virginia's Claim and Dunmore's War
Chapter XV. Fort Ligonier and Western Pennsylvania in the Revolution (1775-1776)
Chapter XVI. Fort Ligonier and Western Pennsylvania in the Revolution (Continued)--1777
Chapter XVII. Fort Ligonier and Western Pennsylvania in the Revolution (Continued) (1778)
Chapter XVIII. Fort Ligonier and Western Pennsylvania in the Revolutionary War (Continued) (1779)
Chapter XIX. Fort Ligonier and Western Pennsylvania in the Revolutionary War (Continued) (1780-1781)
Chapter XX. Fort Ligonier and Western Pennsylvania in the Revolutionary War (1782-1783)
Chapter XXI. Passing of Fort Ligonier and the Western Pennsylvania Frontier
Conclusion
Appendix. A Glimpse at Early Western Pennsylvania Court Records
Index