Lord Dunmore's War
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Lord Dunmore's War, also known as Dunmore's War, was a brief conflict in the fall of 1774 between the British Colony of Virginia and the Shawnee and Mingo in the trans-Appalachia region of the colony
Portrait of Lord Dunmore by Joshua Reynolds, 1765. John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, for whom the war is named
1854 illustration of the battle
Camp Charlotte Farm.
Angus McDonald was a Scottish American military officer, frontiersman, sheriff and landowner in Virginia.
Portrait of Angus McDonald
McDonald's grandfather, Alastair Dubh McDonald (pictured), served as the commander of the Glengarry clan in the Battle of Killiecrankie in 1689 during the early Jacobite risings.
McDonald was an immediate family member of a chief of the Clan MacDonell of Glengarry, whose clan seat was Invergarry Castle (pictured) overlooking Loch Oich.