Attack on Fort Recovery

Mural depicting the 1794 Battle of Fort Recovery, on Wayne Street in downtown Fort Recovery, Ohio

 Wiki says

The Battle of Fort Recovery, 30 June – 1 July 1794, was a battle of the Northwest Indian War, fought at the present-day village of Fort Recovery, Ohio. A large force of warriors in the Western Confederacy attacked a fort held by United States soldiers deep in Ohio Country. The United States suffered heavy losses, but maintained control of the fort. The battle exposed a division in the Western Confederacy's military strategy at a time when they seemed to hold the advantage, and the United States pressed farther into the Northwest Territory.

Battle of Echoee Pass 1760

 Fort Dobbs State Historic Site posted this

June 27, 1760. On this day in history was fought the Battle of Echoee Pass.

As Colonel Montgomery’s army advanced toward the Cherokee town of Echoee, the warriors of the Lower, Middle and Valley Towns, some of the Overhill warriors, and some Choctaw and Creek set an ambush at a narrow valley on Crow’s Creek. The Cherokee force is believed to have been commanded by Seroweh;, the Young Warrior of Estatoe.

A Ranger company led the British column and were routed when the Cherokee sprung their ambush. Montgomery sent the Light Infantry and Grenadier companies of the 1st and 77th Regiments forward to support. A Light Infantry captain and 2 soldiers were killed, and a surgeon was severely wounded. The fighting devolved into hand to hand combat. The 1st Regiment was driven back by heavy fire into an open field.

Montgomery deployed his line with the 1st Regiment on the right and the 77th on the left. The 77th advanced and was able to turn the Cherokee right flank, causing them to fall back. The British forced their way through the pass and push toward Echoee, but the Cherokee turned their attention to the army’s supply train. A number of packhorses and packhorse men in the rear guard were killed and wounded before the Cherokee were driven away by a detachment.

While Montgomery claimed the Battle of Echoee Pass as a victory, the army suffered such high losses that they were unable to advance further. Montgomery believed that any benefit gained in burning deserted Cherokee Middle Settlement towns was vastly outweighed by the cost of his soldiers’ lives.

The Cherokee showed their prowess as warriors and cost the British dearly. The army retreated south to Estatoe. Montgomery estimated Cherokee losses at 50 warriors killed. His force suffered 21 killed and over 60 wounded in the battle.

Image: Highlanders of the 77th Regiment.

Apple River Fort

 

June 24 we travel back to the Black Hawk War in 1832, when Sauk and Fox warriors under Black Hawk attacked Apple River Fort near Galena. One person at the fort died and two were injured. Battle wiki

From the wiki: the small company of militia at the fort, about 28-30 men and boys led by Captain Clack Stone, fought off Black Hawk's 150-man war party in an action that lasted about an hour. The withering pace of the gunfire eventually convinced Black Hawk that the fort was too heavily defended to lead a direct attack. He considered burning the fort, then switched to raiding cabins of foodstuffs, clothing and cooking utensils. In the gathering darkness, Black Hawk and his war party retreated.

It is 40 years since I started reenacting. This pic is the late 90s when I used to run a society reenacting the French and Indian war. I am on the right.
 

Beginning of the King Philip's War - Attack on Swansea, June 20, 1675 by Giuseppe Rava

 

Bunker Hill 250th

This was a success by everything I have read. 
 

Today in America

 Wishing everyone a great time. 

"King Philip's War" 1675-1676 - America's First Great Indian War (2000)

 The history and legacy of America's forgotten conflict. Between June 1675 and August 1676, nearly 3000 native Americans of the Wampanoag tribe and 800 English from Plymouth and the Massachusetts Bay Colonies died in what is considered the bloodiest was per capita on the North American continent.

This war was one of the most significant, seminal events in American history.

King Philip's War 1675

 June 20, 1675 – April 12, 1678
(2 years, 9 months, 3 weeks and 2 days)

350 years today. Read the wiki

Good cover image

 Le dossier du prochain numéro de la revue d'histoire Cap-aux-Diamants portera sur la Révolution américaine. Bien hâte de lire ce numéro.

Fort Mose in Florida

 A newly opened fort in Florida. From 1738. (1) Facebook. The first reenactment when they have a fort to use. Wiki

The Battle of Bloody Mose...

DATE: June 28, 2025

Park Opens at 8am – with 2 reenactments at 11:00 am & 1:00 pm

9:00 - Weapons Checks / Saftey Briefing

10:00 - Opening Ceremony

11:00 - First Battle

12:00 - Lunch (for the participant)

1:00 - Second Battle

2:00 - Closing Ceremony

Fort Mose Historic State Park

15 Fort Mose Trail

St. Augustine, FL 32084

View of the Attack on Bunker's Hill with the Burning of Charlestown by Lodge

 

Bunker Hill 1775

By John Trumbull - From the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 

The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the first stage of the American Revolutionary War.^[5] The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which was peripherally involved. It was the original objective of both the colonial and British troops, though the majority of combat took place on the adjacent hill, which became known as Breed's Hill.^[6][7]
 

My sister gave me this book. Looks good.

 

Event Raid Along the Mohawk

At Herkimer Home. 
 

Lake of the Woods massacre 1736

From the wiki

 On June 6, 1736, a party of twenty one French explorers led by Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye were massacred by Lakota and Dakota warriors on an island in Lake of the Woods. The massacre came about as a result of a recent French alliance with the Cree, who, under French protection, had been attacking Lakotas. The explorers had been en route to Fort Kaminstiquia on the northern shore of Lake Superior when the group of about one hundred warriors descended on and killed them in revenge for the French-sponsored Cree raids and French slave trading.^[1]