S03E06: Lord Dunmore's War, 1774. - a podcast by Brady J. Crytzer

In the Summer of 1774 trouble stirred on the American
Frontier as Great Britain was faced with yet another terrible Indian Uprising.
Following the signing of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in the year 1768, the
Iroquois effectively gave American settlers free reign of the Ohio River
Valley. Although the document was officially sanctioned by the Six Nations and
Imperial Administration, the Shawnees who actually lived in the region saw any European
encroachment as an act of war. In one of the great powerplays in history Lord
Dunmore, the Governor of Virginia, used these circumstances to manufacture a
war in which he stood to profit greatly. Although labeled “Lord Dunmore’s War”
in the history books few understand this terrible and bloody conflict and often
miss its ties to the larger Revolutionary Age.

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