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The expedition occurred during the summer of 1779, beginning June 18 when the army marched from Easton, Pennsylvania, to October 3 when it abandoned Fort Sullivan, built at Tioga, to return to Washington's main camp in New Jersey. While the campaign only had one major battle, at Newtown (since the tribes evacuated ahead of the large military force) along the Chemung River in western New York, the expedition ripped the guts out of the Iroquois nations' economies burning their crops, villages, and chattels, ruining the Iroquois technological infrastructure and the man-power investment of many decades in massive bonfires. The Amerindians shelter gone, food supplies destroyed, thereafter the strength of the Iroquois Confederacy was broken. The deathtoll from exposure and starvation dwarfed the

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  • The expedition occurred during the summer of 1779, beginning June 18 when the army marched from Easton, Pennsylvania, to October 3 when it abandoned Fort Sullivan, built at Tioga, to return to Washington's main camp in New Jersey. While the campaign only had one major battle, at Newtown (since the tribes evacuated ahead of the large military force) along the Chemung River in western New York, the expedition ripped the guts out of the Iroquois nations' economies burning their crops, villages, and chattels, ruining the Iroquois technological infrastructure and the man-power investment of many decades in massive bonfires. The Amerindians shelter gone, food supplies destroyed, thereafter the strength of the Iroquois Confederacy was broken. The deathtoll from exposure and starvation dwarfed the
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  • The expedition occurred during the summer of 1779, beginning June 18 when the army marched from Easton, Pennsylvania, to October 3 when it abandoned Fort Sullivan, built at Tioga, to return to Washington's main camp in New Jersey. While the campaign only had one major battle, at Newtown (since the tribes evacuated ahead of the large military force) along the Chemung River in western New York, the expedition ripped the guts out of the Iroquois nations' economies burning their crops, villages, and chattels, ruining the Iroquois technological infrastructure and the man-power investment of many decades in massive bonfires. The Amerindians shelter gone, food supplies destroyed, thereafter the strength of the Iroquois Confederacy was broken. The deathtoll from exposure and starvation dwarfed the casualties received in the Battle of Newtown, in which about 1,000 Iroquois and Loyalists were decisively defeated by an army of 3,200 Continental soldiers. Caucasian Loyalists also lost their homes and lands in the deliberate devastations explicitly ordered by General George Washington, who was soon after known in Amerindian cultures by the pejorative "the Burner of Towns". Sullivan's army then carried out a scorched earth campaign, methodically destroying at least forty Iroquois villages throughout the Finger Lakes region of western New York, to put an end to Iroquois and Loyalist attacks against American settlements as had occurred the previous year of 1778 such as the Cobleskill, Wyoming Valley and Cherry Valley massacres. The survivors fled to British regions in Canada and the Niagara Falls and Buffalo areas. The devastation created great hardships for the thousands of Iroquois refugees who fled the region to shelter under British military protection outside Fort Niagara that winter, and many starved or froze to death, despite attempts by the overstressed resources of the British authorities to import food and provide shelter. The Sullivan Expedition devastated the Iroquois crops and towns and left them dependent upon the mercy of the British for the harsh winter of 1779-80. Major Jeremiah Fogg of the 2nd New Hampshire Regiment noted in his journal: "The nests are destroyed, but the birds are still on the wing." The expedition objective of ending the frontier war was, however, not realized, as British and Indian attacks continued in the following years.
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