Brant's Volunteers
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Brant's Volunteers, also known as Joseph Brant's Volunteers, were an irregular unit of Loyalist and Indigenous volunteers raised during the American Revolutionary War by Mohawk war leader, Joseph Bran
Joseph Brant and his Loyalist and Indigenous volunteers raided settlements on the frontier of New York during the American Revolutionary War.
Siege of Fort Stanwix
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The siege of Fort Stanwix began on August 2, 1777, and ended on August 22, 1777. Fort Stanwix, at the western end of the Mohawk River Valley, was a primary defense point for the Continental Army again
Aerial view of the reconstructed Fort Stanwix
18th-century engraving of Barry St. Leger
A road blocked by a "giant abatis" such as delayed St. Leger's artillery
Portrait of Peter Gansevoort by Gilbert Stuart, 1794