On this day 250 years ago, Colonel Andrew Lewis met in a council of war at his home Richfield (in present day Salem, Virginia) with Colonels William Christian, William Fleming and William Preston. The council was planning the march of the Fincastle, Botetourt, Augusta and Bedford County militias to the Ohio River to attack the Shawnee in Dunmore’s War. All four of these Virginia militia colonels would continue to serve as military commanders or political leaders in Virginia during the Revolution. Only one of these four militia colonels was born in America; Fleming immigrated to America fr om Scotland and both Lewis and Preston were born in Ireland.

Source: Williams, Glenn F., Dunmore’s War at pp. 205-06; https://www.virginia.org/listing/site-of-andrew-lewis-home-richfield-the-salem-civic-center/4654/