| Siege of Bryan Station | |||||||
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| Part of the American Revolutionary War | |||||||
 Illustration of the siege | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 United States |
 Great Britain Wyandot Lenape Shawnee | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Elijah Craig[1] John Craig [2] |
William Caldwell Alexander McKee | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 90 settlers[3] | 400–500 provincials and Indians | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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4 killed 5 wounded[4] |
5 killed 2 wounded | ||||||
Bryan Station (also Bryan's Station, and often misspelled Bryant's Station) was an early fortified settlement in Lexington, Kentucky. It was located on present-day Bryan Station Road, about three miles (5 km) northeast of New Circle Road, on the southern bank of Elkhorn Creek near Briar Hill Road. The settlement was established in the spring of 1776 by brothers Morgan, James, William (married to Mary Boone, sister of Daniel Boone), and Joseph Bryan, and brother-in-law William Grant (married to Elizabeth Jane "Betsy" Boone, also a sister of Daniel Boone), all from Yadkin River Valley, Rowan County, North Carolina.[5] After a disastrous winter and attacks by Native Americans, all the Bryan family survivors abandoned the station and returned to the Yadkin River Valley in August 1780.[6] Falling under the command of Elijah Craig,[7] the remaining occupants withstood several American Indian attacks.
- ^ George W. Ranck, The Story of Bryan's Station: As Told in the Historical Address Delivered at Bryan's Station, Fayette County, Kentucky, August 18th. 1896 (corrected and approved ed.; Lexington, KY: Transylvania Printing, 1896), 33.
- ^ Durrett, Reuben Thomas; Stanton, Henry Thompson; Ranck, George Washington; Young, Bennett Henderson (1897). "Bryant's Station and the Memorial Proceedings Held on Its Site Under the Auspices of the Lexington Chapter, D. A. R., August the 18th, 1896, in Honor of Its Heroic Mothers and Daughters".
- ^ Durrett, Reuben Thomas; Stanton, Henry Thompson; Ranck, George Washington; Young, Bennett Henderson (1897). "Bryant's Station and the Memorial Proceedings Held on Its Site Under the Auspices of the Lexington Chapter, D. A. R., August the 18th, 1896, in Honor of Its Heroic Mothers and Daughters".
- ^ Durrett, Reuben Thomas; Stanton, Henry Thompson; Ranck, George Washington; Young, Bennett Henderson (1897). "Bryant's Station and the Memorial Proceedings Held on Its Site Under the Auspices of the Lexington Chapter, D. A. R., August the 18th, 1896, in Honor of Its Heroic Mothers and Daughters".
- ^ "Bryan, William | NCpedia". www.ncpedia.org. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
- ^ Durrett, Reuben Thomas; Stanton, Henry Thompson; Ranck, George Washington; Young, Bennett Henderson (1897). "Bryant's Station and the Memorial Proceedings Held on Its Site Under the Auspices of the Lexington Chapter, D. A. R., August the 18th, 1896, in Honor of Its Heroic Mothers and Daughters".
- ^ Durrett, Reuben Thomas; Scott, Mrs Elizabeth Slaughter Bassett; Stanton, Henry Thompson; Ranck, George Washington; Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution Kentucky State Society Lexington; Young, Bennett Henderson (1897). Bryant's Station and the Memorial Proceedings Held on Its Site Under the Auspices of the Lexington Chapter, D. A. R., August the 18th, 1896, in Honor of Its Heroic Mothers and Daughters. J. P. Morton, printers.