Bird's invasion of Kentucky

Bird's invasion of Kentucky
	Part of the American Revolutionary War
	; An illustration of Kentucky County, Virginia
Date	May 25 – August 4, 1780
Location	Kentucky County, Virginia
Result	British-Indigenous victory
Belligerents
Great Britain ; Shawnee ; Odawa ; Ojibwe	United States
Commanders and leaders
Henry Bird ; Alexander McKee ; Simon Girty ; Blue Jacket	Isaac Ruddle (POW)
Strength
150 regulars and militia ; 700 Indigenous warriors	Unknown
Casualties and losses
1 killed ;	1-20 killed ; 350 captured

Bird's invasion of Kentucky in 1780 was one of four concurrent military operations organized by the British in the Trans-Appalachia region during the Revolutionary War. The goal was to clear the Illinois Country and the Mississippi River valley of Spanish and American forces. While Bird's campaign met with limited success, destroying two fortified settlements in Kentucky County and taking several hundred prisoners, it failed its primary objective of destroying the American fort at the Falls of the Ohio.