page_title: Cornstalk
hierarchical_section_title: Cornstalk
caption_attribution_description: English: I have isolated and cropped the character on the far left assuming that the caption "Chiefs Cornstalk, Logan and Red Eagle" starts from the left. This is one of the earliest depictions of Chief Cornstalk.
context_page_description: Cornstalk was a prominent leader of the Shawnee nation just prior to the American Revolutionary War. His name, Hokoleskwa, translates loosely into "stalk of corn" in English, and is spelled Colesqua in some accounts. He was also known as Keigh-tugh-qua and Wynepuechsika.
  Cornstalk opposed European settlement west of the Ohio River in his youth, but he later became an advocate for peace after the Battle of Point Pleasant. His murder by American militiamen at Fort Randolph during a diplomatic visit in November 1777 outraged both American Indians and Virginians.
context_section_description: Cornstalk (Shawnee: Hokoleskwa or Hokolesqua) (ca. 1720 – November 10, 1777) was a prominent leader of the Shawnee nation just prior to the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). His name, Hokoleskwa, translates loosely into "stalk of corn" in English, and is spelled Colesqua in some accounts. He was also known as Keigh-tugh-qua and Wynepuechsika.
  Cornstalk opposed European settlement west of the Ohio River in his youth, but he later became an advocate for peace after the Battle of Point Pleasant (1774). His murder by American militiamen at Fort Randolph during a diplomatic visit in November 1777 outraged both American Indians and Virginians.
caption: An 1872 drawing of Cornstalk from Frost's Pictorial History of Indian Wars and Captivities
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