Burning of the Valleys (American Revolution)
| Northern Theater after 1777 | |||||
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| Part of the American Revolutionary War | |||||
 Hessian cavalry in the American Revolutionary War. |
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 Great BritainMohawks Seneca Cayuga |
 United States France Vermont RepublicOneidas |
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Sir Henry Clinton Frederick Haldimand John Butler Walter Butler Joseph Brant Sayenqueraghta Cornplanter Sir George Collier |
George Washington John Sullivan James Clinton Jacob Klock Abraham Ten Broeck Thomas Hartley |
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The Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War after Saratoga consisted of a series of battles between American revolutionaries and British forces, from 1778 to 1782 during the American Revolutionary War. It is characterized by two primary areas of activity. The first set of activities was based around the British base of operations in New York City, where each side made probes and counterprobes against the other's positions that sometimes resulted in notable actions. The second was essentially a frontier war in Upstate New York and rural northern Pennsylvania that was largely fought by state militia companies and some Indian allies on the American side, and Loyalist companies supported by Indians, British Indian agents, and occasionally British regulars. The notable exception to significant Continental Army participation on the frontier was the 1779 Sullivan Expedition, in which General John Sullivan led an army expedition that drove the Iroquois out of New York. The warfare amongst the splinters of the Iroquois Six Nations were particularly brutal, turning much of the Indian population into refugees.
The only other notable actions occurred in New England. A combined American-French attempt was made to drive the British out of Newport, Rhode Island. The Battle of Rhode Island ended badly when the French fleet abandoned the effort; the failure did some damage to American–French relations. In 1779 the British established a base on the Penobscot River in the District of Maine with the intent of establishing a Loyalist presence there. The state of Massachusetts responded with the amphibious Penobscot Expedition, which ended in complete disaster.
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