Louis Cook
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Louis Cook, or Akiatonharónkwen, was an Iroquois leader and commissioned officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Born to an African father and an Abenaki mother in what is now
Colonel Louis of the Oneidas. John Trumbull sketched this pencil drawing in 1785.
Colonel Louis defiantly raises his Tomahawk in The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775 by John Trumbull
Saratoga campaign
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The Saratoga campaign in 1777 was an attempt by the British to gain military control of the strategically important Hudson River valley during the American Revolutionary War. It ended in the surrender
Surrender of General Burgoyne John Trumbull, 1821
Portrait of John Burgoyne by Joshua Reynolds, 1766
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, portrait by Antoine-François Callet
Fort Ticonderoga from Mount Defiance