Sullivan Expedition
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The Sullivan Expedition was a United States military campaign under the command of General John Sullivan during the American Revolutionary War, lasting from June to October 1779, against the four Brit
Woodcut print of the Battle of Newtown
Letter from John Sullivan, 1779
Historic marker, Kirkwood, New York
A memorial to Sullivan's pack horses in the village of Horseheads, New York
Cherry Valley massacre
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The Cherry Valley massacre was an attack by British and Haudenosaunee forces on a fort and the town of Cherry Valley in central New York on November 11, 1778, during the American Revolutionary War. It
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…campaign was ordered by George Washington in response to the Haudenosaunee and Loyalist destruction of American settlements in the Wyoming Valley, and Cherry Valley. The campaign had the aim of "the total destruction and devastation of their settlements." Four Continental Army brigades carried out a scorched-earth…
1856 painting of the massacre
Seneca war chief Cornplanter
Joseph Brant, portrait by Gilbert Stuart
Monument to the victims of the Cherry Valley massacre