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Lord Dunmore's War, 1774

LC control no.sh 85039988
LC classificationE83.77
Topical headingLord Dunmore's War, 1774
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Variant(s)Dunmore's Expedition, 1774
See alsoIndians of North America--Wars--1750-1815
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Kentucky--History--To 1792
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Shawnee Indians--Wars
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Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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Found inBritannica Micro. (Lord Dunmore's War, 1774; Virginia-led attack on the Shawnee Indians of Kentucky)
Encyc. Amer. (under Indian, American; Indian Wars in North America, southern campaigns; in 1774, Lord Dunmore's War opened Kentucky to settlement through a major campaign against the Shawnee who lived north of the Ohio River but claimed Kentucky as Shawnee territory)