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  • I recalled Cornstalk's pretended friendship for the whites at Carr's Creek and on Jackson's River and the price the settlers paid for their trustfulness.

    A Virginia Scout Hugh Pendexter 1907

  • On the tour, Howie, my driver, took us around a beautiful Victorian home that is now known as the Cornstalk Hotel.

    Ignighter 2009

  • On the tour, Howie, my driver, took us around a beautiful Victorian home that is now known as the Cornstalk Hotel.

    Ignighter 2009

  • "Cornstalk" (Corntassel?), same date and place.] who had come to

    The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • The Virginians, along with a second force led by Lord Dunmore, the Royal Governor of Virginia, then marched into the Ohio Country and compelled Cornstalk to agree to a treaty, ending the war.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2009

  • At the Battle of Point Pleasant on October 19, 1774, Native Americans under the Shawnee Chief Cornstalk attacked the Virginia militia, hoping to halt their advance into the Ohio Country.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2009

  • After a long and furious battle, Cornstalk retreated.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2009

  • He served in an expedition that resulted in the Battle of Point Pleasant, where the Shawnee leader Cornstalk was killed.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

  • In 1777, Cornstalk was visiting Point Pleasant when other Indians killed a settler.

    Homeland Security-Part 5 2007

  • Cornstalk feared the Virginians would overrun Ohio, and so he led a Shawnee army against one of the Virginian forces.

    Homeland Security-Part 5 2007

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