Hello, everyone. This is Andrew.

This is Caleb and welcome to our eighth installment on the American Revolution and the

Aroquois involvement in it.

And today we're going to be talking about General Sullivan's expedition.

Now Andrew, General John Sullivan, he's kind of a controversial character.

Some people view it him as if he was just trying to do his duty and impress his general.

And other people look at him kind

of the way i picture richard sherman in the south he's basically the ericoy version of general

sherman in the civil war yes and if you've never heard about general sullivan before let's just say

that fire is his friend and he is going to burn a lot

of stuff. But before we get to John, why don't we sum up what happened last week? Last time we talked a lot

about Joseph Brandt and the loyalist group known as the Butler family and how they conducted a lot

of raids into Pennsylvania and modern New York, which was mainly

Iroquois homeland, but was also on the border of a lot of these frontier settlements. And in doing

so, raiding all of these towns, pressure is being put on the newly formed United States Congress

and particularly George Washington to do something about it. These people are on the

borders of the frontier and they are the ones that are having their homes burned and pillaged.

So people are starting to stay Washington. If you want us to side with you, you better get up here

and do something about this. So we see things from the other side. Brandt is trying to defend

his Mohawk territory and Seneca and Kiyuga territory because they

realize that they need to go on the offensive if they want to prevent any more encroachment upon their lands.

And at the same time, the Oneida are found in this horrible situation where they end up being allied to the Americans

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