This man sparked a crisis when he ordered the captain of the HMS Magdalene to remove gunpowder from a magazine in response to (*)
This man cut the tails off the horses of Chief Justice Daniel Horsmanden in a drunken rage after William Tryon was appointed to replace him in his first post. For a time, this man had to conduct business from his hunting lodge at Porto Bello. After William Woodford held off an attack he ordered across the Great Bridge, this man crammed his troops onto ships so squalid that 500 of 800 soldiers in one of his divisions died of smallpox. This man sparked a crisis when he ordered the captain of the HMS Magdalene to remove gunpowder from a magazine in response to (*) Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death!" speech. This man issued a proclamation promising freedom to any slave who joined the loyalist cause, and filled his namesake Ethiopian Regiment with the enlistees. The Battle of Point Pleasant was the only major action of a war in present-day Kentucky against the Mingo and Shawnee that this man pressured the House of Burgesses to declare. For 10 points, name this British colonial governor of Virginia for whom that 1774 war is named.
This man cut the tails off the horses of Chief Justice Daniel Horsmanden in a drunken rage after William Tryon was appointed to replace him in his first post.
Lord Dunmore [or John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore]