“Be strong! Be strong!”

—  Cornstalk

Battle cry, repeatedly shouted out at the Battle of Point Pleasant (10 October 1774), as quoted in Sketches of Virginia: Historical and Biographical (1856) by Rev. William Henry Foote, Ch. 12 : Cornstalk — and the Battle at Point Pleasant

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Native American in the American Revolution 1720–1777

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