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From: "Don Erickson" <>
Subject: Re: [CASEY-L] William Casey/Battle of Pt Pleasant
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 13:30:44 -0700
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Hi, Roger.
I was wondering why you called Dunmore's war
the first battle of the Revolutionary War.

Dunmore's War took place in 1774, and involved Virginians
from Virginia and what is now West Virginia fighting the
Shawnee Indians. John Murray Dunmore, 4th Earl of Dunmore
(1732-1809) was a British colonial administrator, and
Governor of Virginia 1771-1776.

It was simply a campaign to drive the Indians out of Virginia
and environs, and was not a war against England.

don
Don Erickson, Colorado Springs CO

www.pcisys.net/~don_erickson
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From: "Roger" <>
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Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 7:43 AM
Subject: RE: [CASEY-L] William Casey/Battle of Pt Pleasant


> I do not know. I just saw him listed in the roster. This battle
> sometimes known as "Lord Dunmore's War" was the first battle of the
> Revolutionary War. The average ages of those soldiers were about 30 yrs.
> old.
>
> Roger


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