Seeds of Empire : The American Revolutionary Conquest of the Iroquois

by Mintz, Max M.

• ISBN13: 9780814756225
• ISBN10: 0814756220
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: New York University Press

Summary

Seeds of Empirerecreates the events surrounding General John Sullivan's scorched-earth campaign against the Six Nations of the American Indians of New York and the Eastern territories in 1779, following the surrender of General John Burgoyne's British army at the Battle of Saratoga. Mintz's meticulous historical research and renowned storytelling ability give life to this arresting narrative as it probes the mechanisms of the American Revolution and the structure and function of the Iroquois Six Nations.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
List of Illustrations	ix
Maps	xi
Prologue	1	(4)
In His Steps	5	(18)
``Blood over the Earth''	23	(23)
No Quarter	46	(18)
``We Destroyed Men, Women and Children''	64	(11)
Mission Devastation	75	(11)
Cry Massacre	86	(17)
``A Soil Worth Contending For''	103	(12)
Resistance	115	(15)
Shortfall	130	(7)
Ambush	137	(10)
``To Extirpate Us from the Earth''	147	(9)
``Between Two Hells''	156	(17)
Betrayal	173	(10)
Epilogue	183	(5)
Abbreviations	188	(3)
Notes	191	(32)
Index	223	(9)
About the Author	232