Qualla: Battle of Galudoghson https://qualla.com/battle-of-galudoghson en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/x/w/battle-of-galudoghson-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Galudoghson https://qualla.com/battle-of-galudoghson Battle of Galudoghson: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-galudoghson/ Photo credit Jacques Reich (probably based on an earlier work by another artist), Public domain. Galudoghson, the Iroquois name for the river the English called James, was the language the colonists never bothered to learn. The battle that took place near its banks in December 1742 went without a formal name for more than two centuries, until a historian in 1995 finally gave it the title the warriors themselves would have recognized. By then, the Onondaga and Oneida men who died near Balcony Falls had been dead so long that almost no one in Virginia knew the river had ever been called anything else. They were heading south. Under a chief named Jonnhaty, the war party had walked down from Pennsylvania along the Great Indian Warpath, a route their people had used long before any of the farmers now planted along the Shenandoah claimed the soil. The target was the Catawba, the historical enemies of the Iroquois Confederacy. The Virginia settlers were not the war.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/x/w/battle-of-galudoghson-wp/dnxw-battle-of-galudoghson-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Galudoghson: A Pass and a Promise https://qualla.com/battle-of-galudoghson/ Photo credit Jacques Reich (probably based on an earlier work by another artist), Public domain. The warriors carried a written pass from a Pennsylvania justice authorizing their passage. They understood it as a treaty document, a promise that they could move through colonial territory without trouble. The settlers they encountered could not read the Iroquois names on the pa...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/x/w/battle-of-galudoghson-wp/dnxw-battle-of-galudoghson-a-pass-and-a-promise.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Galudoghson: Whiskey at the McDowell House https://qualla.com/battle-of-galudoghson/ Photo credit Jacques Reich (probably based on an earlier work by another artist), Public domain. On December 1, 1742, the war party stopped at the home of Captain John McDowell in Borden's Tract, the Augusta County land that had recently been opened to settlement. McDowell fed them, gave them whiskey, and pointed them toward what he said was good hunting country a few miles ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/x/w/battle-of-galudoghson-wp/dnxw-battle-of-galudoghson-whiskey-at-the-mcdowell-house.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Galudoghson: Balcony Falls https://qualla.com/battle-of-galudoghson/ Photo credit Jacques Reich (probably based on an earlier work by another artist), Public domain. The 33-man militia caught up with the war party on December 17 near the homestead of John Peter Salling. For two days they followed at a distance. Near Balcony Falls, where the James River cuts a gorge through the Blue Ridge, one of the warriors stepped into the forest, possibly ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/x/w/battle-of-galudoghson-wp/dnxw-battle-of-galudoghson-balcony-falls.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Galudoghson: The Treaty That Came After https://qualla.com/battle-of-galudoghson/ Photo credit Jacques Reich (probably based on an earlier work by another artist), Public domain. The battle was the first armed clash between European settlers and Native peoples in what colonists called Western Virginia. It was small by the scale of later wars, but it was loud enough to reach the governor's office, and from there to the diplomatic channels the Iroquois Conf...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/x/w/battle-of-galudoghson-wp/dnxw-battle-of-galudoghson-the-treaty-that-came-after.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Galudoghson: What the River Remembers https://qualla.com/battle-of-galudoghson/ Photo credit Jacques Reich (probably based on an earlier work by another artist), Public domain. A historical marker stands in the McDowell family burial plot in Fairfield, naming the captain who died at the head of the war party. For 253 years there was no marker for the warriors. Their names, those that survived in colonial documents at all, were filtered through interpret...

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