For the Australian cricketer, see William Darke (cricketer). For the Australian colonist and surveyor, see William Wedge Darke.
William Darke
Portrait of William Darke
Born
1736 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died
November 26, 1801 (aged 64–65) Jefferson County, Virginia
Buried
Ronemous Engle Cemetery, Jefferson County, West Virginia
Service/branch
Virginia militia, Continental Army
Years of service
1755, 1776–1781, 1784, 1791
Battles/wars
French and Indian War
Braddock Expedition
American Revolutionary War
Battle of Germantown
Northwest Indian War
Battle of the Wabash
William Darke (1736 – November 26, 1801) was an American soldier who served with British forces before the Revolutionary War. He served with British regulars commanded by Major General Edward Braddock in his 1755 expedition to the French-controlled Ohio Valley, as part of the French and Indian War. The British forces were defeated and Braddock died.
Darke survived to be commissioned as a captain at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. He was made prisoner at the Battle of Germantown. He was commanding colonel of the Hampshire and Berkeley regiments at the capture of General Cornwallis. Darke was often a member of the Virginia legislature and, during the convention of 1788, voted for the Federal Constitution.
As lieutenant-colonel of the regiment of "Levies" in 1791, he commanded the left wing of St. Clair's army at its defeat by the Miami Indians on November 4, 1791. He made two unsuccessful charges in that fight: his younger son, Captain Joseph Darke, died in the second, and he himself was wounded and barely survived. Darke wrote a letter to President George Washington that described the battle. Afterward, Darke served as a major-general of the Virginia militia.
WilliamDarke (1736 – November 26, 1801) was an American soldier who served with British forces before the Revolutionary War. He served with British regulars...
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William Wedge Darke (1810–1890) was an Australian colonist and surveyor, the son of John Darke of Hereford and Elizabeth Darke, née Wedge, and younger...
from cover, targeting officers and artillerymen. Lieutenant Colonel WilliamDarke led a bayonet charge, temporarily creating an opening for the Natives...
the surveyor William Wedge Darke and his family had camped on the beach in their two roomed, carpeted wooden caravan known as 'Darke's Ark'. Liardet...
1844. Darke was born in Hereford, England, in 1806, the son of WilliamDarke, a prosperous owner of property in Hereford, and Elizabeth Darke. Practically...
original Sheetz gunnery, and bought in 1818 by Captain William Delyea, stepson of General WilliamDarke. Congressman Van Swearingen lived in the house during...
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Holst, Katherine Kennicott Davis, and Harold Darke, and "Love Came Down at Christmas", also set by Darke and other composers. She was a sister of the...
(Major WilliamDarke captured) 12th Virginia Regiment, Colonel James Wood Cavalry: Brigadier General Count Casimir Pulaski Major General William Alexander...
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theory (e. g., Fischoff, 1976; Weiner et al., 1987), personality variables (Darke & Freedman, 1997a;b), and more recently a cognitive priming approach (DeMarree...
is a non-fiction book by British writer Diana Darke, published by Hurst & Co in 2020. In the book, Darke writes about the influence of Islamic architecture...
backstage. In 1978, Bindon was tried for the murder of London gangster Johnny Darke. Bindon pleaded self-defence and was acquitted, but the case damaged his...
Nick's great-grandfather, William Leonard Darke, was a sea captain and master mariner. Nick's grandfather, Temperley Darke, was also a master-mariner...
other two field officers were Lieutenant Colonel John Markham and Major WilliamDarke. On 11 May 1777, the unit was assigned to the 4th Virginia Brigade,...
less than two miles (3.2 km) northwest of Woodland, now Willowdell, in Darke County, Ohio, a rural county along the state line with Indiana. Her birthplace...
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