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Willers, Diedrich & Gridley, S.H. The Centennial Celebration of General Sullivan’s Campaign Against the Iroquois, in 1779. Held at Waterloo, September 3rd, 1879, to Which is Prefixed a Sketch of the Waterloo Library and Historical Society (Waterloo, NY: The Waterloo Library and Historical Society, 1879)
Octavo. [iv], 356 pages. Five illustrations plus a one on title page. Hardcover. Bound in purple cloth-covered boards faded to brown. Blind stamped to both front and rear boards, gilt stamping to front cover and spine strip.
Condition: Near fine. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners. Previous owner’s name to front board in pencil. Hinges tight, binding solid. Spotting on rear cover is not as apparent to the eye as it is to the camera.
“The 1779 Sullivan Expedition, also known as the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition, was an extended systematic military campaign during the American Revolutionary War against Loyalists (“Tories”) and the four Nations of the Haudenosaunee which had sided with the British.
“The campaign ordered and organized by George Washington and his staff was conducted chiefly in the lands of the Iroquois Confederacy (also known as the Longhouse Confederacy) “taking the war home to the enemy to break their morale”, and the expedition was largely successful in that goal as they destroyed more than 40 Iroquois villages and stores of winter crops, breaking the power of the six nations in New York all the way to the Great Lakes, as the terrified Indian families relocated to Canada seeking protection of the British. Today this area is the heartland of New York State, and with the military power of the Iroquois vanquished, the events also opened up the vast Ohio Country, the Great Lakes regions,Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky to post-war settlements.” – Wikipedia
