Calls for Reprisal and the Sullivan Expedition
- When
- 1779
- Where
- Upstate New York
- Part of
- Cherry Valley Massacre
The massacre, alongside accusations of murder at Wyoming, prompted Washington to commission the 1779 Sullivan Expedition against the Haudenosaunee.
The violent frontier war of 1778 brought calls for the Continental Army to act. Cherry Valley, along with accusations of murder of non-combatants at Wyoming, helped pave the way for the 1779 Sullivan Expedition, commissioned by George Washington and led by John Sullivan, which achieved the total military defeat of the British-allied Haudenosaunee in Upstate New York. It nevertheless failed to stop the frontier war, which continued with renewed severity in 1780.
Sources
- Cherry Valley massacre Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-26
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