Lazarus Stewart: Colonial Custer

(Wikipedia) - Captain Lazarus Stewart (July 4, 1734 – July 3, 1778) was an 18th century Pennsylvanian frontiersman and leader of the Paxton Boys. He achieved notoriety by leading the massacre of the Susquehannocks in 1763, and was a prominent military commander — on the Yankee side — in the Pennamite Wars. He met his death in battle with the Loyalists and Iroquois at the Wyoming Massacre, in an attack precipitated by his own rashness. Continued

Top image: "Massacre of the Indians at Lancaster by the Paxton Boys in 1763," lithograph published in Events in Indian History (John Wimer, 1841).

Bottom image: "Massacre of Wyoming"