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Events on Friday 18 June 1779 1
1779Sullivan ExpeditionContinental Army campaign against the IroquoisOn George Washington's orders, Major General John Sullivan led a Continental Army campaign against the Iroquois nations allied with Britain. The expedition defeated a Loyalist and Iroquois force at the Battle of Newtown and destroyed more than forty villages and their crops. The destruction forced thousands of Haudenosaunee to flee to British-held Fort Niagara.