Gnadenhutten Massacre

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Conflict & War, Critical Thinking, Features, Interviews November 3, 2019 November 3, 2019

This Week on Dispatches: Eric Sterner on the Gdnadenhutten Massacre

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Eric Sterner about the Gnadenhutten Massacre, the murder of ninety-six Delaware Indians—men, women, and children—at a…

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Religion, The War Years (1775-1783) February 6, 2018 February 6, 2018

Moravians in the Middle: The Gnadenhutten Massacre

by Eric Sterner

In 1782, six months after Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown, Patriot militiamen committed one of the most heinous war crimes of the Revolutionary War. On…

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