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	POINT PLEASANT BATTLEFIELD West Virginia
Location: City of Point Pleasant, at junction of Ohio and Kanawha Rivers, Mason County. Tu-Endie-Wei (Point Pleasant Battle Monument) State Park

Early in 1774 Dr. John Connolly occupied Fort Pitt in the name of Virginia and began to encourage nearby frontiersmen to aggression against the Indians, thereby bringing on "Lord Dunmore's War." Col. Andrew Lewis, with about 1,100 men from southwestern Virginia, marched up the Kanawha to Point Pleasant where Chief Cornstalk with a large force of Shawnee attacked him early in the morning of October 10, 1774. The Indians withdrew in the late afternoon, after heavy fighting which produced severe casualties: 50 Virginians killed, 100 wounded. The Shawnee were thereafter unable to halt the settlement of Kentucky or to destroy the weak Kentucky stations during the crucial early years of the War for Independence. Tu-Endie-Wei State Park, a 2-acre reservation, includes part of the battlefield as well as the graves of Col. Charles Lewis, Chief Cornstalk, and "Mad Ann" Bailey, a noted frontierswoman, and an 84-foot granite shaft commemorating the battle. Mansion House, built in 1796 as a tavern, is maintained as a historic-house museum. The rest of the battlefield is covered by the city of Point Pleasant.