With Musket and Tomahawk, Volume II: The Mohawk Valley Campaign in the Wilderness War of 1777

With Musket and Tomahawk, Volume II: The Mohawk Valley Campaign in the Wilderness War of 1777

by Michael O. Logusz
With Musket and Tomahawk, Volume II: The Mohawk Valley Campaign in the Wilderness War of 1777

With Musket and Tomahawk, Volume II: The Mohawk Valley Campaign in the Wilderness War of 1777

by Michael O. Logusz

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Overview

This history of the 1777 Wilderness War in America’s fight for independence chronicles the Patriot defense against British and Iroquois attackers.
 
Continuing his acclaimed history of the battles for New England during the Revolutionary War, Michael Logusz chronicles the British Army’s campaign from Lake Ontario down the Mohawk Valley. This campaign, led by Gen. Barry St. Leger, was perhaps the most terrifying of all, as it overran a sparsely populated wilderness where colonists had long needed to bear arms against the Iroquois Federation. Yet now, the British had made common cause with the Iroquois, forming an even more fearsome enemy.
 
In upstate New York, the Patriot Fort Stanwix held fast, though surrounded by St. Leger’s forces and his Mohawk and Loyalist auxiliaries. Some eight hundred Patriots under militia leader Nicholas Herkimer attempted to relieve the fort, but were ambushed en route in the Battle of Oriskany, the basis for the movie Drums Along the Mohawk.
 
In the end, Fort Stanwix was relieved only when Benedict Arnold marched his troops through and forced the British to give up their western onslaught. In With Musket and Tomahawk Volume II, Logusz captures the terrain, tactics, and terror of this multifaceted wilderness war.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781612000831
Publisher: Casemate Publishers (Ignition)
Publication date: 01/10/2020
Series: With Musket & Tomahawk Series , #2
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 264
Sales rank: 498,669
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Michael O. Logusz is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, having served in Kuwait and Iraq. Logusz has authored Galicia Division: The Waffen-SS 14th Grenadier Division 1943–1945, With Musket & Tomahawk: The Saratoga Campaign and the Wilderness War of 1777, and With Musket & Tomahawk, Volume II: The Mohawk Valley Campaign in the Wilderness War of 1777. He resides in Sterling, New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1 St. Leger’s Preparations in Canada
2 General Herkimer Meets with Chief Joseph Brant
3 St. Leger Moves Into the Western Wilderness
4 The Patriots Advance Into the Western Theater
5 St. Leger Assembles His Army
6 General Herkimer’s Preparations for War
7 St. Leger’s Advance to Fort Stanwix
8 The Siege Begins
9 General Herkimer’s March to Fort Stanwix
10 The Battle of Oriskany
11 The Patriots Raid St. Leger’s Camp
12 Retreat from Oriskany
13 The Siege Continues
14 General Herkimer Returns to the Mohawk Valley
15 Continuing Actions at Fort Stanwix
16 Loyalist Raids and Probes into the Mohawk Valley
17 Cushetunk’s Resistance
18 The Battle for the Schoharie Valley
19 Patriot Plans to Relieve Fort Stanwix
20 The British Abandon the Siege
21 The End of St. Leger’s Army

Bibliography
Index
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