Ostenaco
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Ostenaco was a Cherokee leader, warrior, orator, and leader of diplomacy with British colonial authorities in the 18th century. By his thirties, he had assumed the warrior rank of "otacity", and the t
Portrait of Ostenaco by Joshua Reynolds, 1762
Drawing of Chief Ostenaco during his visit to London, 1762, by Joshua Reynolds
Sandy Creek Expedition
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The Sandy Creek Expedition, also known as the Sandy Expedition or the Big Sandy Expedition, was a 1756 campaign by Virginia Regiment soldiers and Cherokee warriors into modern-day West Virginia agains
Ostenaco
…the French and the Shawnee, leading his warriors over 3,500 miles on foot and by canoe to support the colonists. In 1756, he led 130 Cherokees in the Sandy Creek Expedition, a joint Cheroke–Virginia Colony campaign on the frontier of what is now West Virginia. In 1757 and 1758, his war party raided the French stronghold…
Andrew Lewis (from the statue in Richmond).