Colonel John Butler has recruited a regiment…
June 1778 CE
By April 1778 the Seneca were raiding settlements along the Allegheny and Susquehanna Rivers, and by early June the three groups meet at the native village of Tioga, New York.
Butler and the Seneca decide to attack the Wyoming Valley, while Brant and the Mohawks (who had already raided Cobleskill in May) target settlements further north.
American military leaders, including Washington and Lafayette, have also sought to recruit Iroquois, primarily as a diversion to keep the British in Quebec busy.
These recruitment attempts, however, have met with more limited success.
The Oneida and Tuscarora are the only tribes of the Six Nations to become Patriot allies.
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Iroquois (Haudenosaunee, also known as the League of Peace and Power, Five Nations, or Six Nations)
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Mohawk people (Amerind tribe)
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Oneida people (Amerind tribe)
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Tuscarora (Amerind tribe)
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Seneca (Amerind tribe)
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France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of
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Britain, Kingdom of Great
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Patriots (American Revolution)
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Loyalists (American Revolution)
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Pennsylvania, Commonwealth of (U.S.A.)
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United States of America (US, USA) (Philadelphia PA)
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Americans
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New York, independent state of
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