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Today In History:  96 Christians Were Massacred By American Militia during the Revolutionary War (1782)
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Today In History: 96 Christians Were Massacred By American Militia during the Revolutionary War (1782)

On this day in 1782, during the Revolutionary War, 96 Christians were massacred by colonial American militiamen in the village of Gnadenhutten, Ohio. The incident was precipitated when the Delaware Indian tribes…