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Fort Donnally / Border Heroes

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Fort Donnally, built by Andrew Donnally a few miles north about 1771, was attacked by 200 Indians in 1778 in what was the second most important frontier engagement in the state. The fort was relieved by a force under Colonel John Stuart. Before the attack, the settlement had been warned by Phillip Hammond and John Pryor, scouts at Point Pleasant, who, made up as Indians by Nonhelema, the sister of Cornstalk, passed and outran the Indians.
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