The Big Apple
Their Actions Affect Me Three Centuries Later
Spent two nights at Lock 22...just downstream from Rome, NY. Lots of great historical events occurred along the Mohawk...Ft Stanwix and Oriskany Battlefields. These were not numerically large battles but the outcome drove a stake in the Brits plans to split the colonies along the Hudson...leading to his defeat at Saratogo. Brits tried to capture the fort by starving it into surrender. Continental forces accompanied by Oenieda Indian came to the rescue and were met by Brit and other native Indian allies. The Continentals were ambushed and decimated in a narrow ravine near a village of Oriskany. Though a tragic loss for the continentals, the native tribes supporting the British were demoralized and abandoned the Brits when they discovered their camp ravished by militia from the fort. The brit allied natives withdrew forcing the British to abandon their efforts to capture the fort and retreat. Couldn't help but ponder the significance of thi...
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