Sullivan's expedition against the Indians of New York

Sullivan's Expedition Against The Indians Of New York - is a book, which was published in 1886, consists of a letter from Andrew McFarland Davis to Justin Winsor, corresponding secretary Massachusetts Historical Society, as well as the Journal of William McKendry. William McKendry was quartermaster of Ichabod Alden's Massachusetts Regiment with the rank of lieutenant and stationed in Cherry Valley but escaped the massacre. He was with the detachment of General James Clinton, who joined Sullivan's expedition against the Six Nations. The Sullivan Expedition, also known as the Sullivan Campaign or the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition, was a large-scale military operation prepared by George Washington and carried out by the Continental Army during the American Revolution against the Loyalists and the Four Iroquois Tribes who supported the British Empire. The Americans campaigned in response to British-allied Iroquois attacks on the Wyoming Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania and the Cherry Valley settlement of New York in 1778. The Sullivan Expedition of 1779 was one of the largest offensives carried out by the American Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.