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Battle of the Trough
Part of the French and Indian War
DateMarch or April, 1756
Location
South of "The Trough", near present-day Old Fields, Hardy County, West Virginia, USA
Result Indian victory
Belligerents
Shawnee and Delaware Indian warriors Battle of the Trough 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
Twenty Brave Men by Jackson Walker

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]

  1. ^ Until 1786, present day Hardy County, W.Va., was part of Hampshire County, Va.
  2. ^ Koontz, Louis Knott (1925), The Virginia Frontier, 1754–1763; The Johns Hopkins Press (Reprinted 2002 by Heritage Books, Inc.), pp 323–324.
  3. ^ Baker, Norman L. (2000), French & Indian War in Frederick County, Virginia.

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