PUBLISHER: Publish'd as the Act directs 22 Augt. 1776 by Thos. Hart London.
MEDIUM: Mezzotint,
DATE: 1776.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 12 3/4 x 9 3/16" (32.2 x 2.33 cm).
DESCRIPTION: Joh, Martin Will excudit Aug. Vind. <BR><BR> John Sullivan was born in New Hampshire on February 17, 1740 and began life as a lawyer. In 1774 he was made a delegate of his state and was sent before the First Continental Congress. With battles heating up around the colonies, Sullivan took up arms and led troops into conflicts such as The Battle of Long Island and the Battle of Trenton. He is perhaps best known, however, for his efforts in the Sullivan Expedition (also known as the Clinton-Sullivan Campaign), in which he struck back at the Native Americans who had aligned themselves with the crown. The campaign began in 1779 when attacks made by the Six Nations began to cripple the Continental Army by cutting off the delivery of food, goods and additional manpower. Four brigades (numbering more than four-thousand men), commanded by General John Sullivan and General James Clinton, were sent out by General Washington to take care of the matter. By the end of the campaign more than forty Native American villages had been destroyed and the survivors forced north, to Niagara, where they struggled to survive with meager British assistance. All this came with few casualties to the Continental Army.
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CONDITION: Fair condition, narrow margins. Creasing within image and lower publication line has been removed.
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