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Point Pleasant 1774: Prelude to the American Revolution (Campaign)

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From the writer of Wabash and Fallen Timbers comes the tale of a pre-Revolutionary conflict between American settlers and Indian tribes at the Ohio River in West Virginia.

The battle of Point Pleasant was once the foremost battle in what is referred to as Lord Dunmore’s War, the conflict between the Colony of Virginia and the Shawnee and Mingo Indian tribes in what is now the state of Kentucky. Following a series of incidents between American settlers and the Native tribes, the Earl of Dunmore led one militia army, with Colonel Andrew Lewis leading some other, against the Shawnees and Mingos. On October 10, 1774, a force of about 700 Indians attacked Lewis’s 1,one hundred-man army at what is now Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Lewis’s men succeeded in driving the Indian forces off, although only after suffering about 20 percent casualties. The 2 Virginia militia forces pursued the Indians into Ohio before a peace treaty was once signed that opened up Kentucky for American settlement.

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