John Sullivan James Clinton Enoch Poor Edward Hand William Maxwell
John Butler Walter Butler Sayenqueraghta Cornplanter Joseph Brant Fish Carrier
Strength
3,200 Continental regulars 2 companies of militia 9 artillery pieces
200-250 Butler's Rangers 300-350 Seneca, Cayuga, Mohawk, and Munsee Delaware 14 British regulars (8th Regiment of Foot)
Casualties and losses
8 killed 31 wounded
12 Iroquois & 3 British killed 9 Iroquois & 3 British wounded 2 British captured
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Northern frontier after 1777
Cobleskill
Wyoming Valley
Big Runaway
German Flatts
Unadilla and Onaquaga
Carleton's Raid
Cherry Valley
Minisink
Sullivan Expedition
Newtown
Boyd and Parker
Royalton Raid
Klock's Field
Johnstown
The Battle of Newtown (August 29, 1779) was the only major battle of the Sullivan Expedition, an armed offensive led by Major General John Sullivan that was ordered by George Washington to end the threat of the Iroquois who had sided with the British in the American Revolutionary War. Opposing Sullivan's four brigades were 250 Loyalist soldiers from Butler's Rangers, commanded by Major John Butler, and 350 Iroquois and Munsee Delaware. Butler and Mohawk war leader Joseph Brant did not want to make a stand at Newtown, and instead proposed to harass the enemy on the march, but were overruled by Sayenqueraghta and other Indigenous war leaders.
This battle, which was the most significant military engagement of the campaign, took place at the foot of a hill along the Chemung River just outside what is now Elmira, New York.
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the BattleofNewtown, in which an army of 3,200 Continental soldiers decisively defeated about 600 Iroquois and Loyalists. The deaths in this battle were...
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the later Sullivan Expedition and the BattleofNewtown, as Contintental forces tried to end this threat. Many of the Loyalists who had been forced to...
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