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War in Western Virginia (Governor Robert Dinwiddie~ a governor in Virginia…
War in Western Virginia
Governor Robert Dinwiddie~ a governor in Virginia. He sent a diplomatic mission to Fort LeBoeuf,
near Lake Erie.
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Proclamation of 1763~was issued by the British at the end of the French and Indian War to appease Native Americans by checking the encroachment of European settlers on their lands
George Washington~ played a role in settling the western lands. He was seventeen years old when Lord Fairfax hired him to survey and divide his state into lots. This was his first encounter with Western Virginia which e would soon be the president of.
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General Edward Braddock~ a British officer and commander-in-chief for the Thirteen Colonies during the actions at the start of the French and Indian War
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Lord Dunmore~ a Scottish peer and colonial governor in the American colonies and The Bahamas. He was the last royal governor of Virginia
Chief Logan~ a Cayuga orator and war leader born of one of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. After his 1760s move to the Ohio Country, he became affiliated with the Mingo, a tribe formed from Seneca, Cayuga, Lenape and other remnant peoples. Wikipedia
Chief Cornstalk~ a prominent leader of the Shawnee nation just prior to the American Revolutionary War. He was also known as Keigh-tugh-qua and Wynepuechsika
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Siege~ a military encounter where armed forces try to capture a fort or fortified town by surrounding it and preventing any supplies from reaching it
Fort Henry~ The Battle of Fort Henry was fought on February 6, 1862, in Donelson Middle Tennessee, during the American Civil War. It was the first important victory for the Union. 
Fort Duquesne~Constructed by the French in 1754 at the heart of the Ohio River Valley, Fort Duquesne was an important landmark during the Seven Years' War. It was later taken over by the English, and later Americans developed at Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania
Fort Donnally~ Fort Donnally was the site of an attack by a large group of Indians in May 1778. The settlements were warned by two scouts from Point Pleasant named John Pryor and Philip Hammond (Hamman) who had volunteered to give warning to the Greenbriar settlements.
Point Pleasant~ The settlement developed around Fort Blair, built in 1774, and was chartered in 1794. On October 10, 1774, the Battle of Point Pleasant was fought. At the confluence of the two rivers, General Andrew Lewis and a band of Virginia frontiersmen defeated the allied Shawnee, Delaware, Mingo, Ottawa, and others under Shawnee leader Chief Cornstalk.