Andrew Lewis

Andrew Lewis 1720?-1781, American soldier, b. Ireland. As a boy he emigrated with his family to America and settled near Staunton, Va. Later, he became a leading frontier Indian fighter. In 1754, at the beginning of the French and Indian War, he was with George Washington at the defeat at Fort Necessity. He led an unsuccessful expedition (the Sandy Creek expedition) against tribes in the Ohio country in 1756. He is best remembered for his victory (1774) in Lord Dunmore's War over Native Americans at Point Pleasant (now in West Virginia). In the American Revolution he was a brigadier general in the Continental Army.

Lewis, Andrew (1720–81) military and political leader in southwestern Virginia during the French and Indian (1754–63) and Revolutionary Wars. Lewis, born in County Donegal, Ireland, gained his greatest prominence as a frontier military leader of the local militia in expeditions against the French on the Upper Ohio River. In 1774 he commanded forces that won an important victory over the Shawnee Indians that resulted in their ceding all territory south of the Ohio to Virginia. During the Revolutionary War, Lewis commanded troops against Loyalist forces in Chesapeake Bay (1776), successfully forcing them from the colony. Disappointed at not being made major general, he resigned from the Continental army in 1777.

Pick, Lewis Andrew (1890–1956) military engineer and army officer, born in Virginia. Trained as a civil engineer, Pick worked on the relief commission headed by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover after the Mississippi River flooded in 1927 and in the wake of the Missouri River flood of 1943. Reassigned to the Far East as head of Army Service Forces, Pick oversaw construction of the Ledo Road, nicknamed Pick's Pike, a supply line for the Chinese in their war against Japan that is considered one of the greatest engineering achievements in army history.