1779. Sullivan's expedition against the Indians of New York

By William McKendry

Fire raced along the borderlands in 1779. It changed the frontier forever. In this gripping historical campaign narrative, William McKendry traces the Sullivan expedition 1779 as it pushed through 18th century New York and the New York Pennsylvania frontier, answering years of frontier raids and reprisals. Grounded in revolutionary war military history and shaped by George Washington war policy, the book captures how strategy, supply, terrain, and fear met on the edge of settlement. Not merely a march of troops, it is a study in contested loyalty and survival, where Continental objectives collided with Native homelands. The result is a vivid window onto the Revolutionary era beyond the coast, when the war was fought in farms, forests, and fragile alliances. McKendry writes with the steadiness of a chronicler, drawing on a primary documents collection and established record to illuminate Iroquois frontier warfare and its human cost. Read for the march itself, and stay for the wider frame: Haudenosaunee history and culture set beside the hard arithmetic of wartime retaliation. Long valued as a scholarly reference edition for American history students and serious researchers, it also rewards the general reader who wants a clear, unsentimental account of a campaign that still shadows the region's memory. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure, worthy of any library of early American conflict and classic historical writing, for readers, historians, and collectors.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9353707323
• ISBN13: 9789353707323
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 50 Pages
• Weight: 0.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"