Sullivan Expedition
Campaign during the American Revolutionary War
Sullivan Expedition
The Sullivan Expedition (also known as the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition, the Sullivan Campaign, and the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign) was a United States military campaign under the command of General John Sullivan during the American Revolutionary War, lasting from June to October 1779, against the four British-allied tribes of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy. The campaign was ordered by George Washington in response to the Haudenosaunee and Loyalist destruction of American settlements in the Wyoming Valley, and Cherry Valley. The campaign had the aim of "the total destruction and devastation of their settlements." Four Continental Army brigades carried out a scorched-earth campaign in the territory of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in what is now central New York. The expedition was largely successful, with 40 Haudenosaunee villages razed and their crops and food stores destroyed. The campaign drove just over 5,000 Haudenosaunee to Fort Niagara seeking British protection, and depopulated...
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