As a result of the murders, Logan wages war on the settlements along the Ohio and in western Pennsylvania, killing, perhaps, nearly thirty men, women and children.

Chief Logan incorrectly blames Colonel Cresap for his brother's death and in turn, Cresap despises and hates Greathouse for his part in the affair.

Lord John Murray Dunmore, the British Royal Governor of Virginia, raises an army and appoints Cresap to the rank of Captain.

Greathouse will die of the measles in 1775 in Yohogania County, Virginia at about twenty-three years of age.

Cresap will die the same year.

Governor Dunmore, having received word early in May 1774 that fighting had begun at Yellow Creek and other points on the Ohio, had requested the legislature to authorize general militia forces and fund a volunteer expedition into the Ohio River valley.

With the new forces, the Governor advances toward the Ohio where he split his force into two groups: one will move down the Ohio from Fort Pitt (now Pittsburgh, PA), seventeen hundred men led by him, and another body of eight hundred troops under Colonel Andrew Lewis will travel from Camp Union (now Lewisburg, WV) with the two forces rendezvousing at the mouth of the Great Kanawha River.

Under this general plan, the Governor travels to Fort Pitt and duly proceeds with his forces down the Ohio.

On September 30, he arrives at Fort Fincastle (later Fort Henry), recently built at Zanesburg at his direction.

Dunmore and Lewis advance from their respective points into Ohio to within eight miles (thirteen kilometers) of the Shawnee towns at Pickaway Plains (present Pickaway County, Ohio) on the Scioto.

Here they erect the temporary Camp Charlotte on Sippo Creek and here they meet with Cornstalk to begin peace negotiations.

By the terms of the Treaty of Camp Charlotte (October 19, 1774), the Shawnee agree to cease hunting south of the Ohio and to discontinue harassment of travelers on the River.

Although Chief Logan says he will cease fighting, he will not attend the formal peace talks.

Dunmore's plan is to march into the Ohio Country and force the natives to accept the Ohio River boundary that had been negotiated with the Iroquois in the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix.

Shawnees had not been consulted in that treaty, however, and many do not want to surrender their lands south of the Ohio River without a fight.

Officials of the British Indian Department, led by Sir William Johnson until his death in July 1774, have worked to diplomatically isolate the Shawnees from other natives.

As a result, when the war begins, Shawnees have few allies other than a few Mingos.

Cornstalk, the Shawnee leader, moves to intercept Lewis's army, hoping to prevent the Virginians from linking up. (Estimates of the size of Cornstalk's force have varied over the years, but scholars now suspect Cornstalk was greatly outnumbered, having around three hundred to five hundred warriors.)

Blue Jacket, a future notable Shawnee leader, probably takes part in the battle.

On October 10, 1774, Cornstalk's forces attack Lewis's camp where the Kanawha River flows into the Ohio River, hoping to trap him along a bluff.

The battle lasts for hours and is extremely intense; the fighting eventually becomes hand-to-hand.

Cornstalk's voice is reportedly heard over the din of the battle, repeatedly urging his warriors to "be strong."

Lewis sends several companies along the Kanawha and up a nearby creek in order to attack the natives from the rear, reducing the intensity of the Shawnee offensive.

At nightfall, the Shawnees silently withdraw back across the Ohio.

The Virginians had held their ground, and so won the day, suffering about seventy-five killed and one hundred and fifty wounded.

The Shawnee are supposed to have had thirty-three killed.

The natives had thrown many of their dead companion's bodies into the river to prevent them from being mutilated. (Scalping is routinely practiced by both sides for proof of claim for bounty reasons in this era.

Among the dead is Pucksinwah, the father of Tecumseh.

The Battle of Point Pleasant, sometimes known as the Battle of Kanawha, is the only major battle of Dunmore's War.

After the battle, the Virginians, along with a second force led by Lord Dunmore, march into the Ohio Country and compel Cornstalk to agree to the Treaty of Camp Charlotte, ending the war and ceding Shawnee land claims south of the Ohio (modern Kentucky) to Virginia.

After the Mingo refuse to accept the terms, Major William Crawford attacks their village of Seekunk (Salt Lick Town, near present Steubenville, Ohio).

His force of two hundred and forty men destroys the village.

These operations, and the submission of the Shawnee at Camp Charlotte, virtually close the war.

Governor Dunmore begins his return, proceeding by Redstone and the Great Crossings of the Youghiogheny River to Fort Cumberland, thence to the Virginia capital.

The peace will not prevail for long following this treaty, however.

"Give me liberty, or give me death!" is a quotation attributed to Patrick Henry from a speech he makes to the Second Virginia Convention, after the Virginia House of Burgesses had been disbanded by the Royal Governor, on March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia.

He is credited with having swung the balance in convincing the convention to pass a resolution delivering Virginian troops for the Revolutionary War.

Among the delegates to the convention are future U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.

According to Edmund Randolph, the convention sat in silence for several minutes afterwards.

Thomas Marshall will tell his son John Marshall, who will later become Chief Justice of the United States, that the speech was “one of the most bold, vehement, and animated pieces of eloquence that had ever been delivered.”

Edward Carrington, who was listening outside a window of the church, requested that he be buried on that spot.

In 1810, he will get his wish.

The drafter of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, George Mason, said, “Every word he says not only engages but commands the attention, and your passions are no longer your own when he addresses them.”

More immediately, the resolution, declaring the United Colonies to be independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain, passes, and Henry is named chairman of the committee assigned to build a militia.

Britain's royal governor, Lord Dunmore, reacts by seizing the gunpowder in the public magazine at Williamsburg—Virginia’s equivalent of the battles of Lexington and Concord.

Tensions in the British Colony of Virginia had been raised in April 1775 at roughly the same time that the hostilities of the American Revolutionary War broke out in the Province of Massachusetts Bay with the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

Rebellious Whigs (also known as Patriots) in control of the provincial assembly had begun recruiting troops in March 1775, leading to a struggle for control of the colony's military supplies.

Under orders from John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, the royal Governor of Virginia, British marines had removed gunpowder from the colonial storehouse in Williamsburg to a Royal Navy ship, alarming members of the colonial legislature and prompting a militia uprising.

Although the incident had been resolved without violence, Dunmore, fearing for his personal safety, had left Williamsburg in June 1775 and placed his family on board a Royal Navy ship.

Dunmore reacts to this event by issuing a proclamation on November 7 in which he declares martial law, and offers to emancipate Whig-held slaves in Virginia willing to serve in the British Army.

The proclamation alarms Tory and Whig slaveholders alike, concerned by the idea of armed former slaves and the potential loss of their property.

Nevertheless, Dunmore is able to recruit enough slaves to form the Ethiopian Regiment, as well as raising a company of Tories he calls the Queen's Own Loyal Virginia Regiment.

These local forces supplement the two companies of the 14th Foot that are the sole British military presence in the colony.

This successful recruiting drive prompts Dunmore to write on November 30, 1775 that he will soon be able to "reduce this colony to a proper sense of their duty."

Confrontations and minor skirmishes continue in Virginia between Whigs on one side and Tories on the other until October, when Dunmore has acquired enough military support to begin organized operations against the rebellious Whigs.

General Thomas Gage, the British commander-in-chief for North America, has ordered a small detachment of the 14th Regiment of Foot to Virginia in response to pleas by Dunmore for military help.

These troops had begun raiding surrounding counties for rebel military supplies on October 12.

This activity continues through the end of October, when a small British ship runs aground and is captured by Whigs during a skirmish near Hampton.

Navy boats sent to punish the townspeople are repulsed by Continental Army troops and militia in a brief gunfight that results in the killing and capture of several sailors.

Mowat had set a deadline of 9:00 am on October 18 for the town's response.

By 9:40 the town appears to be deserted, so he runs a red flag up the Canceaux's masthead, and orders the fleet to begin firing.

Incendiary cannonballs set fire to the harbor installations and most of the town's houses and public buildings.

When the bombardment appears inadequate to Mowat, he sends a landing party to set fire to any buildings that have survived.

The town militia offers little significant resistance, as most are helping their families to safety.

In spite of this, some of the landed British marines are killed or wounded.

By evening, according to Mowat, "the body of the town was in one flame".

Following the bombardment, Mowat goes on to Boothbay, where he sets fire to a few houses and raids for livestock, but his expedition is faltering to an end.

The decks of some of his ships have been inadequately braced for prolonged gunnery, and many of his guns have jumped their mounts.

He returns to Boston, and remained there as winter was setting in.

When Admiral Graves is relieved in December 1775, these punitive raids will be gradually abandoned.

One of the last, undertaken to avenge British military losses to revolutionary Patriots, will be the burning of Norfolk, Virginia, on January 1, 1776, instigated by Lord Dunmore, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia.