Which Lenape village was destroyed in the 1756 Kittanning Expedition?

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The Lenape village destroyed in the 1756 Kittanning Expedition was Kittanning.

Kittanning stood on the Allegheny River in the Ohio Country, at the western end of the Kittanning Path. Established by Lenape people in the 1720s, it became a large, multiethnic community and an important base for raids against British settlements during the French and Indian War. Captives were also brought there after attacks.

After the destruction of Fort Granville in August 1756, Pennsylvania organized a deep raid into Lenape territory. About 300 provincial soldiers marched from Fort Shirley under John Armstrong Sr. and attacked Kittanning on September 8. Captain Jacobs, one of the village's prominent war leaders, was killed, and fires and exploding gunpowder destroyed much of the settlement.

A common mix-up is treating Kittanning as a fort or confusing it with nearby names such as Shamokin or Logstown. It was a Native American village; the modern borough of Kittanning, Pennsylvania occupies the general historic site.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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