Editing Kingston, Pennsylvania (section)

===Revolutionary War===
[[File:ChappelWyomingMassacre.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|The [[Battle of Wyoming]] by Alonzo Chappel (1858)]]
On June 30, 1778, [[Loyalist (American Revolution)|Loyalist]] forces, under the command of Major [[John Butler (Ranger)|John Butler]], arrived in the Wyoming Valley to attack the American settlements. On July 1, Fort Wintermoot at the north end of the valley surrendered without a shot being fired. The next morning the smaller Fort Jenkins surrendered. Both forts were later burned to the ground.

Meanwhile, the [[Patriot (American Revolution)|Patriot]] militia assembled at [[Forty Fort]]. On July 3, a column of roughly 375 men including a company of soldiers in the [[Continental Army]] marched from the fort under the command of Lieutenant Colonel [[Zebulon Butler]] and Colonel Nathan Denison. Major Butler's [[Butler's Rangers|Rangers]], with the assistance of about 500 indigenous allies, ambushed the oncoming Americans. In the end, nearly 300  Patriot soldiers from the Wyoming Valley were killed during the [[Battle of Wyoming]], commonly known as the Wyoming Massacre.<ref name="Williams">{{cite book |last1=Williams |first1=Glenn F. |title=Year of the Hangman: George Washington's Campaign Against the Iroquois. |date=2005 |publisher=Westholme |location=Yardley, Pennsylvania |url=https://archive.org/details/yearofhangmangeo0000will |url-access=registration}}</ref>

The next day Colonel Denison surrendered Forty Fort along with several other posts. Widespread looting and burning of buildings occurred throughout the Wyoming Valley subsequent to the capitulation, but non-combatants were not harmed.<ref name="Williams" /> Most of the inhabitants, however, fled across the [[Pocono Mountains]] to [[Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania|Stroudsburg]] and [[Easton, Pennsylvania|Easton]] or down the [[Susquehanna River]] to [[Sunbury, Pennsylvania|Sunbury]].