The Revolutionary War in the Adirondacks

The Revolutionary War in the Adirondacks

by Marie Danielle Annette Williams
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 10/05/2022

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This lively history of the American Revolution explores the combat that took place in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.


Much of New York during the Revolutionary era was frontier wilderness, sparsely populated and bitterly divided. Although the only major campaign in the region would end at the Battle of Saratoga, factional raiding parties traversed the mountains and valleys of the Adirondacks throughout the war.


Sir Christopher Carleton led groups of Loyalists, Hessians and Iroquois in successful attacks along Lake Champlain, capturing forts and striking fear in local villages. Mohawk war chief Joseph Brant led a motley band of irregulars known as “Brant’s Volunteers” in chaotic raids against Patriot targets. Marauding brothers Edward and Ebenezer Jessup brought suffering to the very lands they had purchased years before in Kingsbury, Queensbury and Fort Edward. In this volume, historian Marie Danielle Annette Williams chronicles these and other stories of the Revolutionary War in the Adirondacks.

ISBN:
9781439670231
9781439670231
Category:
Local history
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
10-05-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Arcadia Publishing

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