Following the defeat of British General John Burgoyne’s Army at Saratoga, the Revolutionary War in Upstate New York shifted from large scale battles to smaller, more brutal actions between American forces and Britian’s Haudenosaunee allies – the Iroquois Confederacy.
In August of 1779, a combined force of Iroquois warriors and supporting British Loyalists attempted to stop the advance of American Major General John Sullivan’s Continentals at Newtown, in the Town of Ashland, Chemung County, NY. [Read more…] about Expansion of Newtown Battlefield State Park in Chemung County
