George Washington's war on Native America
The Natives, primarily the Iroquois League and the Ohio Union, are erroneously presented in history texts as allies (or lackeys) of the British, but Native America was working from its own internally generated agenda: to prevent settlers from invading the Old Northwest.
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Series Foreword Bruce E. JohansenAcknowledgmentsIntroduction "Niggur-in-Law to Old Sattan": How the West Was Really Won1 "The Vile Hands of the Savages": Countdown to Total War, 1775–17782 "Shooting Pigeons": The Goose Van Schaick Sweep through Onondaga, April 17793 "The Wolves of the Forest": The Brodhead March up the Allegheny, August-September 17794 "Extirpate Those Hell-Hounds from off the Face of the Earth": The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign, 9 August-30 September 17795 "Keep That Nest of Hornets Quiet": The Ohio Campaigns of 1779–17816 "Two Mighty Gods with Their Mouth Wide Open": Settler Assaults on Ohio, 1782NotesBibliographyIndex