Native Americans

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Native Americans
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• West of the Appalachian Mountains, the British
  and their Native American allies were raiding
  American settlements.
• Mohawk chief Joseph Brant led a number of brutal
  attacks in southwestern New York and Northern
  Pennsylvania

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• On November 30, 1782 preliminary peace articles
  were signed in Paris and on February4, 1783 Great
  Britain formally declared that it would cease
  hostilities in North America.
• However the formal end of the war did not occur
  until the Treaty of Paris was signed on September
  3, 1783 and the United States Congress ratified
  the treaty on January 14, 1984.
• The last British troops left New York City on
  November 25, 1783.

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• Most of the actions involving Native Americans
  took place on the frontier where they could put
  their style of individual fighting to best use.
• They were enough of a threat to cause the end,
  but it didnt really matter whose side Native
  Americans fought on.

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• In April 1782, the British House of Commons voted
  to end the war with the American colonies and the
  government of war proponent Lord North was
  ousted.
• The British moved their troops from Charleston,
  South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia in the
  summer of 1782.

Native Americans
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Joseph Brant

• Native American of the period was
• Joseph Brant, called Thayendanegea by his own
  Mohawk people. Brant was educated at a
  missionary school in Connecticut and was
  connected through marriage to Sir William
  Johnson, the British superintendent of Indian
  Affairs in the years prior to the Revolution.

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Joseph Brant and the British

• Brant remained loyal to the British during the
  war. He became a leader of Indian Forces in a
  number of critical Revolutionary war fights.
• In 1779, a Continental Army led by General John
  Sullivan swept through Pennsylvania and upstate
  New York, burning Indian villages.

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Brant and His Mohawks

• The force ultimately defeated Brant and his
  Mohawks, who retreated to Canada.
• The six tribes of the Iroquois Confederation,
  including the Mohawk, were split irrevocably be
  the Revolution.

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• The Revolutionary War, also called the American
  Revolution, began in 1775. British soldiers and
  American patriots fought at Lexington,
  Massachusetts and nearby Concord.
• In 1783 the Treaty of Paris ended the war. Great
  Britain was forced to recognize the independence
  of the 13 colonies of the United States.

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End of the War

• In 1781, the British strategy changed to focus on
  the southern colonies.
• General Cornwallis led a force of 7,000 troops
  whose mission was to support loyalists in the
  South.

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Bibliography

• The American Republic To 1877
• www.wikipedia.org
• www.cr.nps.gov
• www.vcsc.k12.IN.US/tcr/liberty
• www.philanet.com
• www.history.edu