As Virginians increasingly settled along the Ohio River, the Shawnee and Delaware grew restless over encroachment on their lands. On October 10, 1774, Lord Dunmore of the Virginia Colony ordered Colonel Andrew Lewis and his 1100 Virginia militiamen to attack the Shawnee near Chillicothe, Ohio. While Lewis's army camped across the Ohio River at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, Shawnee Chief Cornstalk led 1000 warriors across the river upstream in a surprise attack on the Virginia militia. After a five hour battle, the Shawnee retreated west across the Ohio. Some regard this as the last battle fought by colonists while still under British rule and, in effect, the first battle of the American Revolution. On November 5, 1774, while Lord Dunmore was at Camp Charlotte on the Pickaway Plains, his officers met at Fort Gower in Hockingport, Ohio, forty-eight miles upstream, and passed a resolution pledging faithful allegiance to King George the Third while also vowing to defend American liberty and its just rights and privileges.