I hope it was not me that was misunderstood. Perhaps I should have clarified it better. Of course, Dunsmore's war was against the Indians. He personally led half of an 1100 man force of militia, almost all southwest Virginians, against Shawnee Chief Cornstalk. Andrew Lewis commanded the other half. Some old historians, probably in error, believed Dunsmore was in secret alliance with the Shawnees to butcher the Virginians in an ambush, because the rebellion was brewing. Dunsmore did not personally get too close to the fighting. 75 Virginians were killed and 150 wounded. Immediately after the battle, Dunsmore treated with the Indians and let Cornstalk off the hook. Hence the conspiracy theories. A few years later, during the Rev. War, Cornstalk was captured and put in jail. The kin of many he had butchered broke into the jail and killed the old Indian who had slaughtered so many settlers. Before some of the militia had gotten home, the "shot heard round the world" was fired at Concord, and the rest is history. Dunsmore later evacuated Williamsburg and set up in Norfolk. He scrounged up an army of 600 British regulars, many tidewater tories, and forced slaves to fight with a promise of freedom. Bedford county and others raised the 1st Va. Militia regiment, commanded by Col. Patrick Henry and Capt. William Campbell, (Campbell county was named after him) late in 1775, and marched to Norfolk to deal with Dunsmore's shenanigans. Dunsmore was finally forced off the continent, and spent a few weeks on a ship in the harbor, before finally leaving for good, I think, in the summer of 1776. And you can imagine what happened to the slaves that helped him. Edwin