Talk:William Crawford (soldier)

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Actually Crawford was captured in Crawford County, Ohio and wasn't totally innocent as he was involved in the killing of Capt. Pipe's ( a Munsi warchief and his executor) brother and the wounding of his mother in an ignoble mlitary venture called in Ohio and Pennsylvania, "The Squaw Campaign." Lapses in the timelines of traditional narratives such as appear in Howe's history lead modern researchers to speculate that Crawford was actually tried and found guilty of his involvement in the "Squaw Campaign," or because the murderer of the Delaware/Mahican/Munsi Indians (not Wyandot)at Gnadenhutten, Col. Williamson escaped during the Battle of the Sandusky plains, and thusly Crawford was executed in his place. Finally, when Parker Brown the historian sent pictures of "Crawford's Sword" to the Smithsonian Institute for identification in the 1990's they concluded that the sword was an American artillery sword from the Seminole War period. My investigation of the actual recovery site near a stagecoach road leads me to believe it was possibly lost or disgarded by a passenger.

Please refer to:

Crawford's Campaign against Sandusky and History of the Girty's by Wilshire Consul Butterfield

Indians in Pennsylvania, Paul Wallace

Various publications regarding Col. William Crawford and his defeat by Parker B. Brown in Pennsylvania historical publications.

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