Who Was Colonel Crawford? Torture on the Ohio Frontier | Frontier Trading Company

The Frontier Trading Company has released his first video in a while, this time uncovering some forgotten frontier history. Sit back and enjoy this great history lesson.

Colonel William Crawford was a trapper, land surveyor, farmer, and judge. He survived Braddock's Defeat during the French and Indian War, then led men during the American Revolution, first as Lieutenant Colonel of the 5th Virginia, then as Colonel in command of the 7th Virginia. Crawford led his men across the Deleware River on Christmas Eve with Washington's Army, fought at Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, and Germantown, and was eventually transferred to the Western Department of the Continental Army to oversee actions on the frontier.