Show cornstalks CORN STALKS FAME AND DEATH AT POINT PLEASANT EVEN eto ir if alil had not lot given to history it they would be well adl represented in the nail hall of fall by corn Coni stalk Mulk lie ile rose to great iless in III tile battle of collit pleas nut ant durlak aird els war var in 1771 1 that wits tile llast all 1 11 engages engagement jimmies indians algiers le lebbs cornstalk against native frontiersmen commanded liy by col andy lewis on oil the evening before the hit battle the shawnee chief knowing it lie was already outnumbers d kind that another briny was as marching film offered to cross tile lie ahlo and ninke make overtures ver tures for pence llo lit wag ann overruled ly lila ills vi it Is well vell lie said it if you oil tire lire resolved to light then fight you hut if tiny liny warrior attempts to run away I 1 will kill lit itani with ill my own hall liniel early ani ly the next morning lie attacked it wits it desperate till oll dily buttle blittle cornstalk was everywhere encouraging ills warriors once true to ills his climit lt lie cut down with lila ills atollia hawk a then lewis out tanked flanked him tile chief skillfully with drew tits ills forces leaving tile the white man tint in possession of tile held field but nt at tile the cost of 75 killed rind and wounded when lord dunmore offered to make peace cornstalk called a council of ills chiefs you would mould riot not mako pence peace before point pleasant what ts Is your voice olce now with two les of tile the long knives pressing upun us lie demanded In if it la Is for war let its first kill our women rind children then go out arid and light fight like ilke men until we 00 oo are killed the shawnees Shawne cs were silent cornstalk dashed tits hatchet into the council post you act like children I 1 ile he exclaimed 1 I will go and make peace myself in self so go lie went to Chilli chillicothe arid and signed the treaty lie broke it in 1777 lie ile went to the american bolf lit at point Il pleasant ests arid and warned tho settlers that lie he might riot not ile he able to restrain ills restless warriors tile hie commandant detained him and tits his son sol 86 hostages one day some roving indians ambushed liis lied and killed a settler bottler declaring that tile tho halt plan planned tied the ambush it 11 party of whites rustled rushed to the cabin where they were beio bield prisoners cornstalk heard their angry cries cilea 0 outside the door ile hu knew lint hat tile tie end hall come my son bon lie fie said to who was badly frightened tile the grent great spirit has seen fit that we should dle die together it at la Is well let us lie die like men und shawnee warriors to ills his feet lie faced the door As aa tile the infuriated settlers threw it open the old chief drew himself up tip proudly and opened wide ills hla arms second litter later lie sank to the t pierced through the breast by se seven ell bullets point Illen sant had brought him DIR both fume and deuth 1 |