The Battle of Point Pleasant was fought at the mouth of the Great Kanawha River, now in West Virginia, on October 10, 1774, between twelve hundred and fifty Virginia colonial troops composing the left wing of Lord Dunmore's Army under General Andrew Lewis and an equal number of warriors from the united Indian nations northwest of the Ohio, including Shawnees, Delawares, Mingoes, Wyandottes, Miamis, and Ottawas, led by the Shawnee chief Keich-tuch-qua, known to Virginians as Cornstalk, with subordinate chieftains Blue-Jacket, Black-Hoff, Red-Hawk, Elinipsico, Scopathus, Chi-ya-wee, and puck-e-shin-wa, who was killed in the battle and left his son Tecumseh an orphan; Cornstalk's cry of "Be Strong! Be Strong!" was often heard during the fighting, but he and his warriors were defeated, with Lyman C. Draper estimating Indian losses at two hundred and thirty three killed and wounded, while the Virginians won a costly victory in which one man out of every five engaged was killed or wounded, and careful estimates placed the number of Virginians killed at eighty-one. Indian depredations on the Virginian frontier had begun early in 1774, and after Lord Dunmore informed the House of Burgesses on May 12 that hostilities had begun, he organized the right wing of an invading army while ordering General Andrew Lewis to collect troops for the left wing at Union, on the site of present Lewisburg in Greenbrier County, now West Virginia; this force included the Augusta County Regiment under Colonel Charles Lewis with six hundred and forty-eight men, the Botetourt County Regiment under Colonel William Fleming with four hundred and fifty men, the Fincastle County Battalion under Colonel William Christian with three hundred and fifty men, and independent companies from Culpeper County, Dunmore County, Bedford County, and the Kentucky Pioneers, and these troops departed Camp Union in stages during September before nearly all had arrived at the mouth of the Great Kanawha by the day of battle. Among the Virginians killed were Colonel Charles Lewis, Colonel John Field, Captain John Murray, Captain Robert McClennahan, Captain Samuel Wilson, Captain Charles Ward, Lieutenant Hugh Allen, Lieutenant Jonathan Cundiff, Ensign Samuel Baker, and several privates, and on the day after the battle the slain and those who died of wounds that night were buried in different places, with Colonel Charles Lewis, Colonel John Field, Captain John Murray, Captain Robert McClennahan, Captain Samuel Wilson, Lieutenant Hugh Allen, John Frogg, and George Cameron buried inside the magazine on the upper point of land at the confluence of the rivers, now Tu-Endi-Wei Park; three years and one month after the battle, on November 10, 1777, Cornstalk was murdered by whites at Point Pleasant.