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Betty Zane. Elizabeth Zane McLaughlin Clark (July 19, 1765 – August 23, 1823) was a woman involved in the American Revolutionary War on the American frontier. She was the daughter of William Andrew Zane and Nancy Ann (née Nolan) Zane, and the sister of Ebenezer Zane, Silas Zane, Jonathan Zane, Isaac Zane and Andrew Zane.
Betty Zane (born c. 1766, probably Hardy county or Berkeley county, Virginia [now in West Virginia, U.S.]—died c. 1831, Martins Ferry, Ohio, U.S.) was an American frontier heroine whose legend of valour in the face of attack by American Indians provided the subject of literary chronicle and fiction. Zane lived in her native Virginia (now part ...
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Betty Zane is known for her daring display of bravery during a British-inspired Indian attack on Fort Henry on September 11, 1782. According to legend, Zane had just returned from attending school in Philadelphia when the settlement was suddenly attacked by Indians.
Betty Zane was a woman of courage - a heroine of the Revolutionary War. Elizabeth "Betty" Zane McLaughlin Clark was born in July 1765. In the late 1760s three of Betty’s brothers ventured from Hardy County, Virginia, and in 1769 founded the first settlement near today's Wheeling, West Virginia.
Mar 22, 2024 · Your clothes are pierced, but you are miraculously unharmed as no bullet has struck you – that is the story of Betty Zane, the 15-year-old American Frontier Heroine whose precious load of gunpowder had saved Fort Henry in 1782.
Sep 6, 2014 · Betty Zane's great-grandnephew, the author Zane Grey, wrote a historical novel about her, titled Betty Zane, which includes an account of Betty’s bravery. Unable to find a publisher for it, he published it himself in 1903. Grey later named his daughter Betty Zane after his famous aunt.
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Betty Zane. Frontier heroine Elizabeth ‘‘Betty’’ Zane, born in the present Eastern Panhandle about 1760, was credited with saving Fort Henry in Wheeling when it was besieged in 1782, during the Revolutionary War. Conflicting reports claim that Molly Scott actually saved the fort, but Zane’s role is generally accepted.
