As Virginia's governor, Dunmore directed a series of campaigns against the trans-Appalachian Indians, known as Lord Dunmore's War. He is noted for issuing a 1775 document, Dunmore's Proclamation, offering freedom to slaves who fought for the British Crown against Patriot rebels in …

2015年7月4日 · Shortly after Lord Dunmore received the governorship of New York, Virginia’s incumbent Royal Governor, Norborne Berkeley, fourth Baron Botetourt, died after governing there for five years. Dunmore was delighted to be promoted to England’s largest and wealthiest North American colony.

Best known for Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation, issued in 1775, Dunmore, in an effort to undermine patriot resolve, declared that any enslaved person who fled his master and would serve with loyalty towards Great Britain, would secure their freedom.

Lord Dunmore's War, also known as Dunmore's War, was a brief conflict in fall 1774 between the British Colony of Virginia and the Shawnee and Mingo in the trans-Appalachian region of the colony south of the Ohio River. Broadly, the war included events between May and October 1774.

Lord Dunmore’s War, (1774), Virginia-led attack on the Shawnee Indians of Kentucky, removing the last obstacle to colonial conquest of that area. During the early 1770s the Shawnee watched with growing distress the steady encroachment upon their rich Kentucky hunting grounds by white trappers, traders, speculators, and settlers.

2021年10月6日 · On June 8, Dunmore boarded the British battleship Fowey at Yorktown. He proceeded to expand his troops, including by asking enslaved African Americans to accompany him. This all...

John Murray, 4th earl of Dunmore was the British royal governor of Virginia on the eve of the American Revolution. A descendant of the Scottish house of Stuart, he was the eldest son of William Murray, the 3rd earl, whom he succeeded in 1756.

Lord Dunmore was the British Royal Governor of Virginia at the time of the American Revolution and a foremost adversary of the colonists. As a colonial governor in the mid-1770’s, Lord Dunmore would have been a controversial man due to his title alone.

2023年5月15日 · John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, was Virginia’s last royal governor. Dunmore, a member of the House of Lords, reluctantly assumed the office in 1771, not wanting to relinquish his position as governor of New York.

John Murray, Fourth Earl of Dunmore, was Virginia's last royal governor. He was born in 1730 in Taymouth, Scotland. His father, William, Third Earl of Dunmore, fought against King George II as part of the Jacobite Army in 1746.