S06E04: Clearing Iroquoia: New York’s Land Grab in the 1779 Campaigns of the American Revolution

We trace how the Sullivan–Clinton campaign was conceived and executed as a land seizure against the Haudenosaunee, not a simple response to raids. We follow letters, orders, and deals that moved from neutrality to burning villages, then to surveys, the military tract, and the canal.

• rewriting the Sullivan–Clinton narrative as a campaign for land
• Dunmore’s War as a template for destroying food and homes
• Schuyler’s ultimatum ending neutrality at German Flats
• propaganda around the Cedars, Wyoming and Cherry Valley
• Onondaga targeted despite seeking neutrality
• Washington’s confirmed orders to destroy corn and orchards
• starvation at Niagara during the record winter of 1779–1780
• surveyors following troops and the creation of the military tract
• Schuyler’s role in backroom claims and early canal planning
• how the Erie Canal overlays dispossessed Haudenosaunee lands

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