Two-hundred-fifty years ago, on October 10th 1774, 2,500 Virginians defeated Chief Cornstalk’s mostly Shawnee warriors at Point Pleasant, WV on the Ohio River. It was the only significant battle in a six-month-long war named after Virginia’s last colonial governor, the Earl of Dunmore, who himself led one of two columns that crossed the Allegheny Mountains into Indian country. The Virginians sought to end  Shawnee, Mingo and … Continue reading When the Virginians Defeated the Shawnees