CHIEF CORNSTALK
(ca.1720-1777)
Shawnee Leader
Cornstalk
was a Shawnee chief who fought in the French and
Indian War and carried out raids into the Greenbrier
Valley during Pontiac’s Rebellion. On October
10, 1774, he led nearly a thousand Shawnee warriors
against an equal number of Virginians at the Battle
of Point Pleasant in the major engagement of Dunmore’s
War.
