40+ people killed in Cherry Valley Massacre 240 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Nov 11 1778)


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(Wednesday, November 11, 1778, early morning local time; during the American Revolutionary War, part of the American Revolution) — A mixed force of Loyalists, British soldiers, Seneca and Mohawks descended on Cherry Valley in central New York today and killed more than 40 people in the Cherry Valley Massacre, described as one of the most horrific frontier massacres of the American Revolutionary War.