powerpoint leading up to the battle of point pleasant

1. Start of Another War

2. • What were his motives?
• Situations got worse Governor Dunmore decided
it was time to eliminate the Indian threat in the
West

3. • Lord Dunmore had a force of 2,500 soldiers.
He set out to in the late summer of 1774 to
confront the Indians
• He divided his forces into two parts.
• One sent up North and the other down South.

4. Lord Dunmore led the
troops in the North
Colonel Andrew Lewis led
the forces down South
Lord Dunmore traveled
through Braddock’s Road
towards Wheeling
Colonel Lewis marched
160 miles in 19 days
Was near a location near
Point Pleasant, where the
Kanawha River meets the
Ohio

5. The Battle of Point
Pleasant.