Siege of Fort Henry (1782)

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Siege of Fort Henry
Part of the American Revolutionary War
An illustration of the siege
Date September 11–13, 1782 Location Fort Henry, Ohio Country 40°03′50″N 80°43′30″W / 40.06389°N 80.72500°W / 40.06389; -80.72500 (Siege of Fort Henry (1782), West Virginia) Result American victory
Belligerents
United States	Great Britain Wyandot Shawnee Seneca Lenape
Commanders and leaders
David Shepard Silas Zane	Captain Pratt Simon Girty
Strength
40 militia	50 provincials 260 Indians
Casualties and losses
1 wounded[1]	Unknown

The second siege of Fort Henry took place from September 11 to 13, 1782, during the American Revolutionary War. A force of about 300 Wyandot, Shawnee, Seneca and Lenape laid siege to Fort Henry, an American outpost at what is now Wheeling, West Virginia, accompanied by a force of 50 Loyalist soldiers from Butler's Rangers, a provincial military unit. The siege is commonly known as "The Last Battle of the Revolutionary War," despite subsequent skirmishes between Patriots and Loyalists involving the loss of life taking place in New Jersey later in 1782. However, these were unorganized outbreaks of fighting between patrons with opposing sentiments rather than engagements between sovereign powers and their allies.