Battle of Sideling Hill

Battle of Sideling Hill Part of the French and Indian War Date April 7, 1756 Location near present-day Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Result Indian victory Belligerents Delaware Indians Great Britain Commanders Captain Jacobs? Shingas Alexander Culbertson  † Strength unknown about 50 militia Casualties and losses about 20 killed and 20 wounded about 20 killed and 20 wounded

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The Battle of Sideling Hill was an engagement between British colonial militia and a band of Native Americans that had recently attacked Fort McCord and taken a number of colonial settlers captive. On April 4, 1756, a band of Delawares, probably under the command of either Captain Jacobs or Shingas, stormed Fort McCord in western Pennsylvania, where they captured or killed 27 settlers. In response to the raid, three bands of militia were sent in pursuit. Culbertson's company, numbering about 50, caught up with the Delawares three days later. In a two-hour engagement, both sides suffered heavy casualties, but the colonists were driven off by the arrival of reinforcements.

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