
George Washington's War on Native America
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Throughout the war, the unwavering goal of the Revolutionary Army, under George Washington, and their associated settler militias was to break the power of the Iroquois League, which had successfully held off invasion for the preceding two centuries, and the newly formed Ohio Union. To destroy the Natives in the way of land seizure, Washington authorized a series of rampages intended to destroy the League and the Union by starvation. Food, livestock, homes, and trees were destroyed, first in the New York breadbaskets, then in the Ohio granaries-spreading famine across Native lands. Uncounted thousands of Natives perished from New York to Pennsylvania to Ohio. This book tells how, in the wake of the massive assaults, the Natives held back the American onslaught.
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Introduction "Niggur-in-Law to Old Sattan": How the West Was Really Won
1 "The Vile Hands of the Savages": Countdown to Total War, 1775-1778
2 "Shooting Pigeons": The Goose Van Schaick Sweep through Onondaga, April 1779
3 "The Wolves of the Forest": The Brodhead March up the Allegheny, August-September 1779
4 "Extirpate Those Hell-Hounds from off the Face of the Earth": The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign, 9 August-30 September 1779
5 "Keep That Nest of Hornets Quiet": The Ohio Campaigns of 1779-1781
6 "Two Mighty Gods with Their Mouth Wide Open": Settler Assaults on Ohio, 1782
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