Seeds of Empire : : The American Revolutionary Conquest of the Iroquois / / Max M. Mintz.

Seeds of Empire recreates the events surrounding General John Sullivan's scorched-earth campaign against the Six Nations of the American Indians of New York and the Eastern territories in 1779, following the surrender of General John Burgoyne's British army at the Battle of Saratoga. Mintz...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2022]
©1999
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • MAPS
  • PROLOGUE
  • CHAPTER 1 IN HIS STEPS
  • CHAPTER 2 ‘‘BLOOD OVER THE EARTH’’
  • CHAPTER 3 NO QUARTER
  • CHAPTER 4 ‘‘WE DESTROYED MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN’’
  • CHAPTER 5 MISSION DEVASTATION
  • CHAPTER 6 CRY MASSACRE
  • CHAPTER 7 ‘‘A SOIL WORTH CONTENDING FOR’’
  • CHAPTER 8 RESISTANCE
  • CHAPTER 9 SHORTFALL
  • CHAPTER 10 AMBUSH
  • CHAPTER 11 ‘‘TO EXTIRPATE US FROM THE EARTH’’
  • CHAPTER 12 ‘‘BETWEEN TWO HELLS’’
  • CHAPTER 13 BETRAYAL
  • EPILOGUE
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • NOTES
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR