One of the outstanding events of the Revolutionary War in the West was the invasion of Kentucky by the British officer, Captain Henry Bird, of the Eighth Regiment of his Majesty's forces, and the destruction of Ruddle's and Martin's Forts. Coming in the summer of 1780 with an army of more than a thousand British regulars, [1] Canadian volunteers, Indians and Tories, and bringing the first cannon ever used against the log forts of the wilderness, he captured 470 men, women and children,[2] loaded them down with the plunder from their own cabin homes and drove them on foot from Central Kentucky to Detroit, a distance of 600 miles. There they were divided among their captors and some of them were taken 800 miles farther to Mackinac and to Montreal.[3] The story of their capture, of the separation of families, of the hardships endured during the six-weeks journey and of the conditions under which they lived during the fourteen years of their captivity is one of the most shocking in the pioneer period of Kentucky's history. The invasion was planned by British officers at Detroit, their object being not only to exterminate the pioneer forts, but to force our western frontier back to the Alleghany Mountains, thus bringing out in bold relief the policy of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War-to prevent the westward growth of the American Colonies.[4] In executing their plan they waged the War of the American Revolution on Kentucky soil, for they came under the command of a British officer flying the British flag, demanding surrender in the name of his Britannic Majesty, King George III, and made official report of the expedition to Sir Frederick Haldimand,[5] the British Lieutenant General, who was then Governor of Canada.[6] From: http://kynghistory.ky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/1B25C3C3-F3E4-4BDB-9413-B48BF7ECB2BA/ 123151/DestructionofRuddlesandMartinsFort1.pdf -----Original Message----- From: lovelace-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:lovelace-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of william loveless Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 12:31 PM To: lovelace@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LL] Cherokee Blood I found Thomas Loveless in the 1896 Dawes rolls under Choctaw case #60. Sarah Loveless is also listed as a founding ancester for the Wayandot nation.She was kidnapped with 8 other Loveless' from Martin's Fort by French allied Shawnee and brutally marched to Canada on foot during the French/Indian war.Sarah was adopted by the Wayandot and after her rescue chose to stay with the tribe.She was given a tract of land in Ky.at a place then called "negroe's point" Do not know which "Thomas" this is,though.