Lochry's Defeat
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Lochry's Defeat, also known as the Lochry massacre, was a battle fought on August 24, 1781, near present-day Aurora, Indiana, in the United States. The battle was part of the American Revolutionary Wa
Lochry's Defeat, Will Vawter, c. 1895
Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea), painted in London by George Romney in 1776
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Joseph Brant
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Thayendanegea or Joseph Brant was a Mohawk military and political leader, based in present-day New York and, later, Brantford, in what is today Ontario, who was closely associated with Great Britain d
Lochry's Defeat
…frontier, where American Indians entered the war as British allies. The battle was short and decisive: about one hundred Indians of local tribes led by Joseph Brant, a Mohawk military leader who was temporarily in the west, ambushed a similar number of Pennsylvania militiamen led by Archibald Lochry. Brant and his…
Portrait by Gilbert Stuart, 1785
Joseph Brant, watercolour by William Armstrong
Joseph Thayendaneken, The Mohawk Chief, 1776.
Portrait of Joseph Brant by Charles Willson Peale (1797)