Everyone knows the first battles of the American Revolution were Lexington and Concord... unless, that is, you live in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-first-battle-of-the-american-revolution/

Key sources for this episode include Randolf C. Downes's "Dunmore's War: An Interpretation"; J.T. McAllister's "The Battle of Point Pleasant"; Virgil Lewis's History of the Battle of Point Pleasant, Fought Between White Men and Indians at the Mouth of the Great Kanawha River (Now Point Pleasant, West Virginia) Monday, October 10, 1774; Glen Williams' Dunmore's War: The Last Conflict of America's Colonial Era; and West Virginia History's "Manufactured History: Re-Fighting the Battle of Point Pleasant".

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