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    Fort Stanwix was a colonial fort whose construction commenced on August 26, 1758, under the direction of British General John Stanwix, at the location...
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    The siege of Fort Stanwix (also known as Fort Schuyler) began on August 2, 1777, and ended on August 22, 1777. Fort Stanwix, at the western end of the...
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    The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was a treaty signed between representatives from the Iroquois and Great Britain (accompanied by negotiators from New Jersey...
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    The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was a treaty finalized on October 22, 1784, between the United States and Native Americans from the six nations of the Iroquois...
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    erected in the 1750s to defend the waterway, in particular the British Fort Stanwix (1763) built in New York. Following the American Revolution, the settlement...
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    of Tryon County militia and Oneidas marching to relieve the siege of Fort Stanwix was ambushed by a contingent of Britain's Indigenous allies and Loyalists...
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    Colonel Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt (c. 1717 – 15 October 1770), commonly referred to as Lord Botetourt, was a British Army officer, Tory politician...
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    best known for leading the resistance to Barry St. Leger's Siege of Fort Stanwix in 1777. Gansevoort was also the maternal grandfather of Moby-Dick author...
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    The first two of these treaties were completed in 1768; the Treaty of Fort Stanwix adjusted the border with the Iroquois Confederacy in the Ohio Country...
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    operations that provided the Americans with relief during the Siege of Fort Stanwix, and key actions during the pivotal 1777 Battles of Saratoga in which...
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    a Mississippian culture took root in western and central Kentucky and a Fort Ancient culture appeared in eastern Kentucky. While the two had many similarities...
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    Lenape Chief Killbuck represented the Delaware Nation at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1768. Little is known about the exact date of his birth or death....
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    valley on Albany, New York, but was forced to retreat during the siege of Fort Stanwix after losing his Indian allies. The major expedition planned from the...
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    Iroquois tribes to Fort Stanwix, where the Iroquois nations relinquished their claims to the Ohio lands in the 1784 Treaty of Fort Stanwix. The Iroquois Confederacy...
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    who, in accordance with previous treaties, especially the Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1768), were exploring and moving into land south of the Ohio River (modern...
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    (26 February 2015). "The 1777 Siege of Fort Schuyler". NPS.gov. Rome, NY: National Park Service, Fort Stanwix National Monument. Elphick, James (10 August...
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    flown during battle was on August 3, 1777, at Fort Schuyler (Fort Stanwix) during the Siege of Fort Stanwix. Massachusetts reinforcements brought news of...
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    remaining claim to the lands south of the Ohio in 1768 at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix. Historian Pekka Hämäläinen writes of the League, "There had never been...
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    Fort McHenry is a historical American coastal pentagonal bastion fort on Locust Point, now a neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. It is best known for...
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    including the Battle of Oriskany, Battle of Saratoga and defense of Fort Stanwix. During the war, a series of raids against valley residents took place...
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  • Rome Council in 1925. In 1929, the Rome Council changed its name to the Fort Stanwix Council (#398) in 1929.[a] In 1915 the Utica Council (#406) was formed...
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    at the Treaty of Hard Labour and by the Six Nations at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix. However, several other aboriginal nations, particularly Shawnee and...
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  • them into the action. When the rebel colonists defeated the British at Fort Stanwix, they killed many Seneca onlookers. The Seneca Tribe before the American...
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    bringing about the failure of British Brigadier Barry St. Leger's siege of Fort Stanwix and the American success in the battles of Saratoga, which fundamentally...
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    supporters of the revolutionaries. After the war ended, the 1784 Treaty of Fort Stanwix kicked off a series of treaties and purchases that saw the Iroquois cede...
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  • Walter Butler and his troops. After the destruction of Fort Stanwix in 1781 it was the westernmost fort in the Mohawk valley, and was besieged by Mohawk leader...
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    reconstruct Fort Stanwix before the British arrived and laid siege to Fort Stanwix (August 2, 1777 to August 22, 1777). After the successful defense of Fort Stanwix...
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    Siege of Fort Stanwix. General Herkimer raised the Tryon County militia, which consisted mostly of Palatines, to march for the relief of Fort Stanwix while...
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    instructions to bring as many Iroquois warriors as he could to Fort Oswego for an attack on Fort Stanwix as a part of the Saratoga Campaign. Butler persuaded about...
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    warned by friendly Oneidas of the impending siege of Fort Stanwix (known to the Americans as Fort Schuyler) by British Lieutenant Colonel Barry St. Leger...
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