From George Washington to Major General John Sullivan, 31 May 1779
From George Washington to Major General John Sullivan, 31 May 1779 Sir, The expedition you are appointed to command is to be directed against the hostile tri...
Period Texts
JOURNAL OF LIEUT. ERKURIES BEATTY, OF THE 4TH PENN LINE.
“21st. this morning set of about Day Break on the same line of march and went about 6 Miles when we halted, Capt. Graham with his Compy. was sent forward as ...
GOD’S CHOSEN
Indeed to see a forest tree, which had withstood the elements till it attained maturity, torn up by its roots, and bending itself to the earth, in obedience ...
AN EERIE CANAL
The forest which covers it, consisting chiefly [of] trees that live in excessive moisture, is now decayed and death struck, by the partial draining of the sw...
LIKE CORTEZ AND SHERMAN, BUT…
The expedition of General John Sullivan against the hostile Indian tribes of the north was one of the most important military movements of the Revolutionary ...
HOW THE WEST WAS WON
In September, 1776, Congress had passed resolutions for the enlistment of soldiers to serve during the Revolutionary War, resolved that each state was to fur...
BURNING ONONDAGA, APRIL ‘79
21st. this morning set of about Day Break on the same line of march and went about 6 Miles when we halted, Capt. Graham with his Compy. was sent forward as a...
THAT VISION THING
GENERAL SULLIVAN’S RAID And when the soldiers in their marches, Advanced on that September morn, And pushed along through woodland arches, Or passed the fie...
CIVILIZATION DEFINED
A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF THE HEROES AND ADVENTURERS WHO, BY THEIR VALOR AND WAR-CRAFT, BEAT BACK THE SAVAGES FROM THE BORDERS OF CIVILIZATION AND GAVE THE AMERIC...
BEARING WITNESS
I have seen him shrinking from civilized approach, which came with all its vices, like the dead of night upon him. I have seen him gaze and then retreat like...
AFTER DINNER TOASTS
General Washington and the Army; General Sullivan & Western Expedition; King and Queen of France; A Successful and Decisive Campaign; May the new World ...
CLARITY & RESISTANCE
Whole Indian nations have melted away like snowballs in the sun before the white man’s advance. They leave scarcely a name of our people except those wrongly...
RIGORS OF THE SEASON: DINNER IS SERVED, AS IROQUOIA STARVES
A handsome house halfway up the bank opposite the ferry seems to attract the eye and to invite strangers to stop at General Schuyler’s, who is its owner as w...
YANKEE ORIGINS…
The White Man comes, pale as the dawn, with a load of thought, with a slumbering intelligence as a fire raked up, knowing well what he knows, not guessing bu...
THE CHAPLAIN PREPARES
The necessity of a just & speedy retaliation for British & savage barbarity prompts the Army to encounter every fatigue & surmount every difficul...
FRONTIER METAPHYSICS
The instinct of antipathy against an Indian grows in the backwoodsman with the sense of good and bad, right and wrong. In one breath he learns that a brother...
KNOW THEM NO MORE FOREVER
The eastern tribes have long since disappeared; the forests that sheltered them have been laid low, and scarce any traces remain of them in the thickly-settl...
SENECAS SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER
Father, the voice of the Seneca Nations speaks to you, the great counsellor, in whose heart the wise men of all the Thirteen Fires have placed their wisdom; ...
ENGLAND IN DEFEAT: WHERE PITY MEETS PRAGMATISM
[War leader, Joseph Brant] is much better informed and instructed than any other Indians, he is strongly attached to the Interest of his Country of men, for ...
THE OFFICERS JOURNALS!
Arguably among the most, if not the most “journalized” expedition in military history, Sullivan-Clinton’s officers journals are now going online. A Must See:...
CHERRY VALLEY TRAGEDY
Click this to view the Cherry Valley Memorial… O haste, men of strength, the savages are near you; Now hurry to the fort, taking with you those you love, ...
SCALPS & FIREWATER
The people [American settlers] are not [yet] Sensible what a good affect It [the burning of villages] has had on the Indians. The Onandaga warriors offer to ...
ONEIDAS: BETWEEN A ROCK & A HARD PLACE
The Rock: Caught in an English Web… BROTHERS : It is now about four years ago since the Bostonians began to rise, and rebel against their Father, the King o...
WYOMING VALLEY TRAGEDY
Perhaps more than any other event, the so-called “Wyoming Massacre” of July 3, 1778 was a rallying cry for launching the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign in retalia...
TEN YEARS AFTER…
Brothers, you must not think hard if we speak rash, as it comes from a wounded heart, as you have struck the hatchet in our head and we can’t be reconciled u...
THE AFTERMATH: IMPENDING STARVATION
‘but the Indians not being supported [by English/Loyalist reinforcements] as they expected, thought of nothing more than carrying off their Families, and we ...
FINAL LAMENT
We are encircled, we are encompassed. The Evil Spirit rides the blast. The waters are disturbed. They rise. They press upon us and the waves settle over us. ...
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
The land between Seneca and Cayuga Lakes appears good. Level and well-timbered; affording a sufficiency for twenty elegant townships which, in the process of...
PROMISE TO KEEP
The Indians shall see that we have malice enough in our hearts to destroy everything that contributes to their support. General John Sullivan Sullivan-Clint...
NO NEGOTIATIONS
But you will not by any means listen to any overture of peace before the total ruinment of their settlements is effected’. Our future security will be in the...
VICTOR’S VERSES
‘The wigwam fell, and the log cabin arose’ ‘Gwah U Gwah, Welcome to Civilization’ ‘Scalps in 1779, Brains in 1879’ ‘From the Trail to the Track’ ‘The End...
GEN. SHERMAN’S CREDO
I know it is common, and too common a practice to accuse General Sullivan of having destroyed peach trees and cornfields, and all that nonsense. He had to do...
ETHNIC CLEANSING?
I flatter myself that the orders with which I was entrusted are fully executed, as we have not left a single settlement or field of corn in the in the countr...
US AND THEM
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absol...