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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
the Virginians three colonels of militia, forty-six men killed and about eighty wounded. This battle was the most bloody and best contested in the annals of forest warfare. The number of the Red Men who were engaged, was probably not less than eight hundred; how many of them fell was never ascertained. The heroes of that day proved themselves worthy to found states. Among them were Isaac Shelby, the first governor of Kentucky; William Campbell; the brave George Matthews; Fleming; Andrew Moore, afterwards a senator of the United States; Evan Shelby, James Robertson, and Valentine Sevier. Their praise resounded not in the backwoods only, but through all Virginia. Soon after the battle a reinforcement of three hundred troops arrived from Fincastle. Following orders tardily received from Dunmore, the little army, Chap. XV.} 1774 Oct. leaving a garrison at Point Pleasant, dashed across the Ohio to defy new battles. After a march of eighty miles through an untrodden wilderne