The Battle of Wyoming (also known as the Wyoming Massacre) is an encounter during the American Revolutionary War between American Patriots and Loyalists accompanied by Iroquois raiders that takes place in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania on July 3, 1778.
More than three hundred Patriots are killed in the battle.After the battle, settlers spread rumors that the Iroquois raiders had hunted and killed fleeing Patriots before using ritual torture against thirty to forty who had surrendered, until they died.
