The Bloody HarpesThe Bloody Harpes
In the late 1700s two cousins, Micajah Harpe and Wiley Harpe, terrorized the Appalachian frontier, stealing, fighting, raping and killing pioneers as they crossed Appalachia looking for a new home.
Category: The Revolution
Siege of Boonesborough – September 7, 1778Siege of Boonesborough – September 7, 1778
On this day in 1778 Chief Blackfish led a group of Shawnee allied with the British in a siege of Boonesborough, Kentucky, that lasted 11 days. Blackfish had previously captured