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War in western Virginia (Fort Duquesne (The surrounding and blockading of…
War in western Virginia
Fort Duquesne
The surrounding and blockading of a city, town, or fortress by an army attempting to capture it.
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.
William Pitt
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, PC, FRS was a British statesman of the Whig group who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain in the middle of the 18th century.
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George Washington
George Washington was an American political leader, military general, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.
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General Edward Braddock
Major General Edward Braddock was 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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Chief Cornstalk
Cornstalk was a prominent leader of the Shawnee nation just prior to the American Revolutionary War.
Lord Dunmore
John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, PC, generally known as Lord Dunmore, was a Scottish peer and colonial governor in the American colonies and The Bahamas.
Chief Logan
Logan the Orator was a Cayuga orator and war leader born of one of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy.
John and Samuel Pringle
John and Samuel Pringle enlisted in the Army where they served at the British Garrison at Fort Pitt during the French and Indian War. The Pringle brothers left the fort without permission in 1761 and wandered the Buckhannon Valley wilderness as trappers and traders for several years before taking up residence in the hollow cavity of a large sycamore tree from about 1764 to 1767.
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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
Proclamation of 1763
forbade settlement west of the Alegheny front, it also ordered those who had already settled west to go back east.
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Fort Henry
The Battle of Fort Henry was fought on February 6, 1862, in Donelson Middle Tennessee, during the American Civil War.