Kittaning

Kittanning was a Lenape settlement on the Allegheny River, where communities occupied both banks amid the forests of the Ohio country. During the French and Indian War, warriors based there raided British colonial settlements across the mountains. In September 1756 Colonel John Armstrong led Pennsylvania troops against the town. They attacked at dawn and burned houses; many residents fled, while the Lenape leader known to the British as Captain Jacobs was killed in the fighting.