Friday, July 26, 2024

Tuesday, July 26, 1774. First armed move in Lord Dunmore's War.

British/Virginian forces under  Angus McDonald crossed the Ohio River to attack the Shawnee villages of Wakatomika.


Angus McDonald, former Jacobite, present commander of British forces, and later American revolutionary.  He'd die in 1778 from an overdose of Antimony potassium tartrate.

Last edition:

Sunday, July 23, 1774. A meeting in Savannah.

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