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Many of the Susquehannock migrated north into western New York, re-settling with the Seneca and Onondaga of the Iroquois. The treaties marked a new era in colonial history, in which the Chesapeake had nearly eighty years of peace. [1] New York and the Haudenosaunee became the focus of English Indian policy. [1]
The British colonies in North America were still relatively small, but growing in influence- especially following the 1664 acquisition of New Amsterdam. The Iroquois re-iterated their dominance over other Native Nations, specifically naming the Tuscaroras, Conestoga, and Shawnee. They agreed to use their influence to protect the British ...
The British decided to isolate New England and concentrate on the central and southern regions where Loyalists supposedly could be rallied. [ 9 ] In December 1776, General John Burgoyne met with Lord Germain , the British Secretary of State for the Colonies and the government official responsible for managing the war, to set strategy for 1777.
In January 1676, the Governor of New York colony, Edmund Andros, sent a letter to the chiefs of the Iroquois asking for their help in King Philip's War, as the English colonists in New England were having much difficulty fighting the Wampanoag led by Metacom. In exchange for precious guns from the English, an Iroquois war party devastated the ...
The last notable action in the New York City area was an attempt by the British to regain control of northern New Jersey in June by attacking the main Continental Army camp at Morristown. The first British-Hessian thrust by Wilhelm von Knyphausen was blocked at the Battle of Connecticut Farms on June 7. A second offensive by Knyphausen on June ...
The 1779 Sullivan Expedition (also known as the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition, the Sullivan Campaign, and the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign) was a United States military campaign during the American Revolutionary War, lasting from June to October 1779, against the four British-allied nations of the Iroquois (also known as the Haudenosaunee).
Father Rale's War (1722–1725), also known as Dummer's War, was a series of battles between New England and the Wabanaki Confederacy, who were allied with New France. After the New England Conquest of Acadia in 1710, mainland Nova Scotia was under the control of New England, but both present-day New Brunswick and virtually all of present-day ...
In North America, there was significant tension between New France and the northern English colonies, where in 1686 the Stuart monarch had reorganized their separate administrations into the Dominion of New England. New England and the Iroquois Confederacy fought New France and the Wabanaki Confederacy. The Iroquois dominated the economically ...