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Americana related to the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign
Traditional and Patriotic Images, from Then & Now…
Gen. James Clinton
first published in Mary L. Booth’s History of New York (1st ed. 1861, 2nd ed. 1880)
Commander-in- chief
Fields of Fire: Our recent installation at the American Indian Community House, NYC. Summer 2004-Winter 2005.
Gen. James Clinton
The co-Commander of the Campaign, brother of NY rebel governor George Clinton, and father of NY State Gov. DeWitt Clinton.
Forever Set in Stone
Several of the 29 NYS road markers carry site- specific information on their back sides. This one, in Aurora, notes the destruction of the Cayuga capital.
Gen. John Sullivan
Co-commander of the Campaign. He filed its Offical Report to Congress. Then became New Hampshire’s first US Governor.
Cherry Valley Massacre Monument
Cemetery monument to settlers killed by Indian- English-Loyalist attack of November, 1778.
Signing Off
Re-enactors part ways after the 225th anniversary of the Cherry Valley Massacre.
Felled by Tomahawk
The town of Cherry Valley marks the site where Colonel Ichabod Alden, post commader, was killed in the Yankee defeat.
Sullivan-Clinton Road Monument
Twenty-nine such highway markers were commissioned by New York State in 1929 (the 150th anniversary) to mark the 1779 invasion route.
Cherry Valley!
Moment from the 225th Gala Reenactment of the 1778 Yankee defeat by English-Iroquois-Tory forces. Then termed a massacre, it became the pretext to invade wha...
Commander-in- chief
George Washington as he looked in 1779, the year he launches the Sullivan- Clinton Campaign. Painted then by Charles Willson Peale. (Courtesy of the U.S. Sen...