The Gnadenhutten Massacre takes place on March 8, 1782, when Pennsylvania militiamen, led by Col. David Williamson, murdered 96 pacifist Christian Indians including 39 children, 29 women and 28 me at the Moravian missionary village of Gnadenhutten, Ohio Country.
The attack took place during the American Revolutionary War. The unarmed, Native Americans, who by all accounts held no allegiance in the war and had played no role in any attack. More