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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, American frontier heroine who, during an attack by Native Americans on Fort Henry in 1782, allegedly volunteered to leave the fort in order to retrieve additional gunpowder. Although her tale of heroism is not well attested, it is nonetheless fixed in legend.
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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.
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.
With the publication of the book Betty Zane by Zane Grey in 1903, she would rank just under Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett in the pantheon of American frontier history for many years. Betty Zane’s courageous act was the defining event of Wheeling’s early days.
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.
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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.
