Clearing Iroquoia: New York&#039;s Land Grab in the 1779 Campaigns of the American Revolution

Travis M. Bowman; Matthew A. Zembo

doi:10.5771/9781666967715

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Edition: 1/2024
Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-6770-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-6771-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 306
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Introduction No access
1. The Birth of the Longhouse No access
2. The Colonizers and Early Interactions No access
3. Catholicism Comes to Iroquoia No access
4. English New York and the Covenant Chain No access
5. Wars of Empire No access
6. Shifting Priorities No access
7. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
1. Breaking the Peace in Canada No access
2. The Seven Fires No access
3. Notes No access
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1. The War Begins No access
2. The Aftermath No access
3. Notes No access
1. The Failure of Peace No access
2. Neutrality Not an Option No access
3. Notes No access
1. Frontier on Fire No access
2. Wyoming: The First “Massacre” No access
3. Notes No access
1. Hartley Attacks the Southern Door No access
2. Butler Raids the Raiders No access
3. Cherry Valley: The First Massacre No access
4. Notes No access
1. Congress (Finally) Lays Out Its War Aims No access
2. The New York Junta No access
3. Who Gets the Yet-to-be-Conquered Land? No access
4. Notes No access
1. Washington Weighs His Options No access
2. Schuyler’s Call for Invasion Answered No access
3. Notes No access
1. Burning the Central Council Fire No access
2. Rebels Condemned No access
3. Notes No access
1. The Rebel Offensive Finally Launches No access
2. Enemy Contact No access
3. The Broadhead Wing: Burning the Upper Alleghany No access
4. Sullivan Overwhelms the Opposition No access
5. Ashes in Their Wake No access
6. Notes No access
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1. Guy Johnson Brightens the Covenant Chain No access
2. Death in the Cold No access
3. The Mourning War Begins No access
4. Notes No access
1. New York’s Inside Man: Congressman Schuyler No access
2. The Backroom Deal No access
3. Notes No access
1. Mapping the Bounty Lands No access
2. Ten Days later Philip Schuyler Was Appointed Surveyor General of New York State 23 No access
3. Playing for Keeps No access
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1. The New American Empire No access
2. Squabbles and Speculation No access
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1. The Anguish of Splitting the Longhouse No access
2. Notes No access
1. Extirpation by Feedfight No access
2. Law of Nations No access
3. Dehumanizing the Enemy No access
4. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
Notes No access Pages 274 - 276
Bibliography No access Pages 277 - 298
Index No access Pages 299 - 304
About the Authors No access Pages 305 - 306