Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery

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

S06E04: Clearing Iroquoia: New York’s Land Grab in the 1779 Campaigns of the American Revolution3 feb1 u 06 min

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 Cedar...