Significant1774

Lord Dunmore's War

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Kentucky · Virginia · USA

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Brief but significant conflict between Virginia militia and Shawnee forces over Kentucky lands. Shawnee victory secured their claims but was soon overshadowed by the American Revolution.

Belligerents2

British Virginia
Shawnee nation

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 2

Battle of Point Pleasant1774
Battle of Yellow Creek1774

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Lord Dunmore's War (1774). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/americas-lord-dunmores-war-1774 · Sources & methodology