(2018) In the summer of 1779, Col. Daniel Brodhead led a campaign north along the Allegheny River to eliminate Native American warriors allied with the British. In mid-August, forward elements of the campaign clashed with a hunting party of Mingo Seneca on an alluvial island now called Thompson's Island, which is located in the Allegheny National Forest.
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