STORY OF THE BATTLE
http://www.wvculture.org/history/settlement/renick.html

WIKIPEDIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Trough

WHERE WAS THE BATTLE?
ALLEGEDLY 1 MILE FROM FORT PLEASANT,
MARKERS ON THIS MAP SHOW THE 1 MILE POINT WHICH IS THE SOUTH END OF THE TROUGH AND ANOTHER MARKER TO SHOW THE NORTH END OF THE TROUGH

LOCATION DESCRIPTION
http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/784

"The Trough is a narrow canyon where the South Branch of the Potomac River runs between Sawmill Ridge and River Ridge, northeast of Moorefield on the boundary of Hampshire and Hardy counties. George Washington gave as good a description as anyone, writing in his journal in 1748: ‘‘The Trough is [a] couple of Ledges of Mountains, Impassable, running side and side together for above 7 or 8 miles and ye River down between them.’’ Washington, visiting as a young surveyor, is supposed to have raced through in a canoe."

Washington's Map showing Fort Pleasant in the Trough in relation to Winchester and Will's Creek where Fort Cumberland was built

http://web.hardynet.com/~gruber/hampshire_county_crisis.htm