Qualla: Battle of the Trough https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-trough en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/z/battle-of-the-trough-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of the Trough https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-trough Battle of the Trough: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-trough/ Photo credit The National Guard, Public domain. In the spring of 1756, sixteen or eighteen well-armed men rode out of Fort Pleasant after two Indians they thought they were chasing. They never saw the trap. Sixty or seventy Lenape warriors under chief Killbuck had divided into small groups, made themselves visible in a tiny number, drawn the pursuit, and arranged to meet at a spring deep inside The Trough - the seven-mile gorge of the South Branch Potomac where steep walls and a flood-swollen river left no room to maneuver. By the time the white men realized what had happened, the Lenape were behind them, between them and their horses, and well above them on both sides.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/z/battle-of-the-trough-wp/dnzz-battle-of-the-trough-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of the Trough: Backdrop: After Braddock's Defeat https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-trough/ Photo credit The National Guard, Public domain. On July 9, 1755, the British General Edward Braddock had been killed at the Battle of the Monongahela when a small French and allied Native American force destroyed his army on the way to Fort Duquesne. With Braddock dead, the Allegheny frontier collapsed. Shawnee and Lenape war ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/z/battle-of-the-trough-wp/dnzz-battle-of-the-trough-backdrop-after-braddocks-defeat.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of the Trough: The Bait https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-trough/ Photo credit The National Guard, Public domain. That spring, a small Lenape party - remnants of a force recently defeated near the head of the Cacapon - was moving through the upper South Branch when it encountered two settler women. Mrs. Brake was killed. Mrs. Neff was taken prisoner. The party encamped near Fort Pleasant. Th...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/z/battle-of-the-trough-wp/dnzz-battle-of-the-trough-the-bait.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of the Trough: The Trap https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-trough/ Photo credit The National Guard, Public domain. The pursuers crossed the river above a spring where the trail usually stopped. They dismounted, divided into two parties for a pincer movement, and started up a small branch entering the Potomac below the spring. There were two ridges flanking the small valley. The white men chos...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/z/battle-of-the-trough-wp/dnzz-battle-of-the-trough-the-trap.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of the Trough: Memory, and the Long Reckoning https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-trough/ Photo credit The National Guard, Public domain. One account holds that British regulars under Captain Waggener were quartered at Fort Pleasant a mile and a half away and refused to come to the survivors' aid. After being called a coward, the story goes, Waggener had several of the survivors pursued and whipped. The truth of th...

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