From Wikipedia

Lord Dunmore's War — or Dunmore's War — was a 1774 conflict between the Colony of Virginia and the Shawnee and Mingo American Indian nations.

The Governor of Virginia during the conflict was John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore — Lord Dunmore. He asked the Virginia House of Burgesses to declare a state of war with the hostile Indian nations and order up an elite volunteer militia force for the campaign.

The conflict resulted from escalating violence between British colonists, who in accordance with previous treaties were exploring and moving into land south of the Ohio River (modern West Virginia, Southwestern Pennsylvania and Kentucky), and American Indians, who held treaty rights to hunt there. As a result of successive attacks by Indian hunting and war bands upon the settlers, war was declared "to pacify the hostile Indian war bands." The war ended soon after Virginia's victory in the Battle of Point Pleasant on October 10, 1774.

As a result of this victory, the Indians lost the right to hunt in the area and agreed to recognize the Ohio River as the boundary between Indian lands and the British colonies.

notables

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• Shawnee chief Cornstalk
• Mingo chief Logan
• John Murray, 4th Lord Dunmore
• Andrew Lewis
• William Crawford
• Angus McDonald

resources

• "Manufactured History": Re-Fighting the Battle of Point Pleasant1 Volume 56 (1997), pp. 76-87
• Lord Dunmore's War - 1774
• Battle of Point Pleasant October 10, 1774
• "The Battle Song of the Great Kanawha"
• Chapter XIII of Archibald Henderson (Ph.D.)'s The Conquest of the Old Southwest, published by the Century Company, New York in 1920. OPENING THE GATEWAY- DUNMORE'S WAR