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Tag: French & Indian War in Greensburg

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Dagworthy’s Camp

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Located one mile to the north, this post was built in 1758. The starting-point of Grant’s ill-fated raid on Fort Duquesne, it was the military hospital for his defeated, wounded men. Often called Grant’s Paradise. (Dedicated: Wednesday, July 17, 1946) Read more...
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Fort Allen – PLAQUE

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Built and commanded by Col. Christopher Truby, officer of the revolution, was located 150 yards to the south of this marker. A frontier Fort of Dunmore’s War 1774, the Indian War, and the War of the Revolution, It was also known as Truby’s Blockhouse. From here a petition to Governor John Penn sent by eighty inhabitants of Westmoreland County, headed Read more...