Fort Dickinson was a Pennamite fort with four small blockhouses, armed with four guns, manned by 100 men constructed as part of the Pennamite Wars. Wyoming Forts

In 1769,

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John Durkee John Durkee (1728 - 29 May 1782) of Connecticut was a commissioned officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Records are sparse on his life, but documentation of his military serviceHeitman, p. 208. indicates that in May 1775 ...

and his men erected Fort Durkee on the eastern bank of the

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at the town of

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Wilkes-Barre ( , alternatively or ) is a city in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. Located at the center of the Wyoming Valley in Northeastern Pennsylvania, it had a population of 44,328 in the 2020 census. It ...

. The fort changed hands several times during the conflict in the following decade. Fort Durkee was renamed Fort Dickinson in 1783. It was destroyed by Connecticut Yankees the following year during the Second Yankee-Pennamite War.

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