Site of Internment Camp     Lochry's Expedition, 1781, a War Memorial

Site of Internment Camp     Lochry's Expedition, 1781, a War Memorial (HM2HJS)

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N 39° 10.718', W 84° 44.793'

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side A Border warfare characterized the American Revolution on the northwest frontier. Between August 26 and September 15, 1781, sixty-four survivors of Lochry's Expedition were held captive by "Butler's Rangers" (British-allied Indians led by George Girty) in a camp near this site. Colonel Archibald Lochry's battalion of Pennsylvania militia, part of a larger punitive expedition under General George Rogers Clark and traveling down the Ohio River behind the main force, was attacked by Girty's men ten miles downstream from the mouth of the Great Miami River near present-day Aurora, Indiana. Thirty-seven militiamen were killed in the August 24 battle, including Lochry, and the rest captured. Afterwards Rogers abandoned his objective of capturing British-held Detroit. The captives were taken to Detroit and eventually to Montreal. Tradition holds that fewer than twenty of Lochry's battalion ever returned to their homes.

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Solomon Aikens; John Allenton; Abraham Anderson; Isaac Anderson; Thomas Atkinson; Melchior Baker; Alexander Burns; John Catt; William Clarke; Peter Connely; Manasseh Coyle; Charles Cracraft; Samuel Craig, Jr.; James Dunseth; Joseph Erwin; Christian Fast; John Ferrell; Mathias Fisher; Richard Fleming; Henry Franks; John Guthrie; Michael Haire; George Hice; Abraham Hiley; John Hunter; Patrick Hunter;



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HM NumberHM2HJS
Series This marker is part of the Ohio: Ohio Historical Society series, and the Sons of the American Revolution series.
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Year Placed2001
Placed BySons of the American Revolution and The Ohio Historical Society
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Date Added Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 at 2:01pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)16S E 694648 N 4339018
Decimal Degrees39.17863333, -84.74655000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 39° 10.718', W 84° 44.793'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds39° 10' 43.08" N, 84° 44' 47.58" W
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