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Thomas Ingles straddled two cultures befor e and after the birth of the United States. Born to a pioneer Virginia cou ple\, William and Mary Ingles\, Thomas was captured along with his mother in a frontier raid at the age of four\, and was given to a Shawnee family in present-day Ohio to be raised in place of their deceased child. Returni ng to his birth parents as a Shawnee man at the age of 17\, Thomas receive d a Virginia gentleman's education and served in the Point Pleasant campai gn of Dunmore's War in 1774--a conflict that pitted his Virginia and Shawn ee communities against each other on the battlefield. Conflict with his fo rmer Shawnee people continued through the Revolutionary War\, when he serv ed as a colonel in the Virginia militia.

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