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 in 1763.
On October 10, 1774, he led a thousand Shawnee
warriors against an equal number of Virginians
at the Battle of Point Pleasant in the major engagement
of Dunmore’s War.
