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1 "Massacre"
2 Neutral POV
3 Query re: number of casualties
4 dates??

[edit] "Massacre"

I have checked some of my references and I haven't found a mention of any widespread killing of non-combatants. BradMajors 05:42, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

I have removed the claim about the killing of non-combatants which could not be substantiated and I have replaced it with a couple of references saying there wasn't a killing of non-combatants. BradMajors 02:32, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Neutral POV

The title of the article should be changed to a neutral POV by renaming this article to "Battle of Wyoming". BradMajors 07:14, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Article has been renamed. BradMajors (talk) 05:31, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Query re: number of casualties

I'm probably just being dense, but the opening paragraph mentions 300 Patriot casualties followed by 30-40 prisoners killed, while later in the article an estimate of 160 casualties is mentioned. Do we have a citation for the 300 casualties figure, or have I misunderstood the figures quoted? Jackollie (talk) 02:20, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

I have added a citation for the figure of around 340 killed. I don't believe the other numbers come from a reliable source. BradMajors (talk) 05:12, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for checking that - I appreciate it. Jackollie (talk) 05:14, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] dates??

I may be dense, too, but the first paragraph mentions a date of July 3 for the Battle/subsequent events, and then the dates in the first paragraph of the Encounter section are June 1 and June 3. I *thought* the July date was correct, no? dkennert (talk) 16:30 EST 30 Nov 2007

July is the correct date and article has been fixed. Graymont in her book says "June 3" which is wrong. Note that these events happened over a few days. BradMajors 23:00, 30 November 2007 (UTC)