The Influence of The Battle of Point Pleasant Upon Subsequent History Historic Marker Tu-Endie-Wei State Park ~ Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Who shall tell of the influence of the Battle of Point Pleasant upon the history of subsequent years? It stands as the closing scene in the drama of colonial history.
Bancroft says "This Battle was the most bloody & best contested in the annals of forest warfare. The Heroes of that day proved themselves worthy to found states-the royal governors of Virginia & the Virginian Army in the valley of the Scioto. Nullified the act of parliament which extended the province of Quebec to the Ohio & in the name of the King of Great Britain. Triumphantly maintained for Virginia the western & northwestern jurisdiction which she claimed as her chartered right."
Roosevelt says: "It is worth noting that all the aftertime leaders of the west were engaged in some way in Lord Dunmore's War."-Certainly in all the contests waged against the northwestern Indians during the last half of the eighteenth century. There was no other where the whites inflicted so great a relative loss on their foes. Its results were most important. -It rendered possible the settling of Kentucky & the winning of the west. Had it not been for Lord Dunmore's War, it is more than likely that, when the Colonies achieved their freedom. They would have found their western boundary at the Allegheny Mountains.
It is true that the English commissioners at the Treaty of Paris in September 1783, asserted that the crest of the Allegheny Mountains should be the western boundary of the United States, & in this, they were supported by the Spanish Representative. But, because of the settlement of Kentucky which rendered possible the conquest of the Illinois Country by the General Assembly of Virginia in 1778; & the establishment of civil government therein-all due to the victory of the Virginians at Point Pleasant-the Mississippi River was agreed upon as the Western Boundary of the New Nation. By the terms of the Treaty of Camp Charlotte, in the Valley of Scioto, following the battle, the northwestern Indians kept quiet for three years. This enabled General Gates to collect the American soldiery from the Penobscot to the Savannah, & thus compel General Burcoyne to surrender the British Army at Saratoga in 1777. This brought France to the rescue, & that meant American Independence, because of its influence on subsequent history the Battle of Point Pleasant has been classed by some writers among those of the revolution.
The Influence of The Battle of Point Pleasant Upon Subsequent History Historic Marker Tu-Endie-Wei State Park ~ Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Who shall tell of the influence of the Battle of Point Pleasant upon the history of subsequent years? It stands as the closing scene in the drama of colonial history.
Bancroft says "This Battle was the most bloody & best contested in the annals of forest warfare. The Heroes of that day proved themselves worthy to found states-the royal governors of Virginia & the Virginian Army in the valley of the Scioto. Nullified the act of parliament which extended the province of Quebec to the Ohio & in the name of the King of Great Britain. Triumphantly maintained for Virginia the western & northwestern jurisdiction which she claimed as her chartered right."
Roosevelt says: "It is worth noting that all the aftertime leaders of the west were engaged in some way in Lord Dunmore's War."-Certainly in all the contests waged against the northwestern Indians during the last half of the eighteenth century. There was no other where the whites inflicted so great a relative loss on their foes. Its results were most important. -It rendered possible the settling of Kentucky & the winning of the west. Had it not been for Lord Dunmore's War, it is more than likely that, when the Colonies achieved their freedom. They would have found their western boundary at the Allegheny Mountains.
It is true that the English commissioners at the Treaty of Paris in September 1783, asserted that the crest of the Allegheny Mountains should be the western boundary of the United States, & in this, they were supported by the Spanish Representative. But, because of the settlement of Kentucky which rendered possible the conquest of the Illinois Country by the General Assembly of Virginia in 1778; & the establishment of civil government therein-all due to the victory of the Virginians at Point Pleasant-the Mississippi River was agreed upon as the Western Boundary of the New Nation. By the terms of the Treaty of Camp Charlotte, in the Valley of Scioto, following the battle, the northwestern Indians kept quiet for three years. This enabled General Gates to collect the American soldiery from the Penobscot to the Savannah, & thus compel General Burcoyne to surrender the British Army at Saratoga in 1777. This brought France to the rescue, & that meant American Independence, because of its influence on subsequent history the Battle of Point Pleasant has been classed by some writers among those of the revolution.