The Life and Times of Ned Hookens by M.J. Harris

Author:M.J. Harris
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: G2 Rights Ltd
Published: 2004-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

An Interlude

In the summer of 1778, loyalist Tories and Indians had laid waste to the entire Wyoming Valley in attempt to ease the increasingly tight cordon around the entrenched British forces. Similar raids occurred throughout the fall and winter of that year and in February 1779, Congress ordered Washington to put an end to such outrages. Over four and a half thousand men, a huge army by wilderness standards, fell upon the Iroquois, killing and burning with a will. Their fields were stripped, their fruit orchards razed, and their lodges destroyed. The American commander, Sullivan, reported that ‘not a single field of corn remains this side of Niagara’.

The expedition seriously weakened the military usefulness of the longhouse men in the short term, but, with their homes and food sources destroyed, they became even more dependent on the British. Britain’s rapid assistance to the devastated Iroquois bound the Indians even more closely to the British cause.

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