Point Pleasant 1774 by John F. Winkler

Author:John F. Winkler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Point Pleasant 1774: Prelude to the American Revolution
ISBN: 9781472805119
Publisher: Osprey Publishing

Many Indians preferred war clubs to tomahawks as weapons in close combat. The clubs often had wooden spikes or were studded with pieces of metal. (Jeff Dearth Collection)

Their food, how ever, was now almost exhausted. With their remaining supply, and a cow and some almost inedible corn found at the villages, the Virginians started back to the Ohio River. “The men,” Thomas remembered, “became exceedingly famished on this march, and I myself, being so young, was so weak that I could no longer carry anything on my person.” At last, the starving men reached the river, feasted on the food left in the canoes, and returned upriver to Wheeling.

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