1779

Sullivan campaign against Haudenosaunee communities

New York and Pennsylvania; principally Seneca and Cayuga communities

Continental forces destroyed towns and food stores, creating displaced populations as winter approached. Indigenous political divisions did not prevent broad attacks on the means of civilian survival.

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Context / qualification

The Confederacy was not politically unified in the Revolutionary War.

Sources

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 4
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 4
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 4

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