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Washington called it a military expedition. The Haudenosaunee called it the Whirlwind. In 1779, the This tour does not ask guests to hate America. It asks them to know America fully.
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520 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19106
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Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia declared liberty to the world while simultaneously debating how far the new republic would expand into Native homelands. Congress funded the Sullivan campaign from this city. Washington issued his orders from this city.
The Western Gateway: Treaty, Betrayal & the Ohio Frontier Pittsburgh, PA · Point State Park · Allegheny River Corridor Fort Pitt was the Continental Army's western anchor and the site of the Treaty of Fort Pitt (1778) — the first formal
The Frontier Burns: Wyoming Valley to Tioga Point Wilkes-Barre, PA → Wyoming, PA → Forty Fort, PA → Athens, PA The Wyoming Valley Massacre of July 1778 — a devastating Loyalist and Haudenosaunee raid on American
Newtown Battlefield: The Last Stand Before the Burning Chemung, NY → Newtown Battlefield, NY → Elmira, NY Newtown, August 29, 1779, was the only major battle of the Sullivan Campaign. Seneca, Cayuga, Mohawk, and
Apple Towns: Cayuga & Seneca Homelands of the Finger Lakes Watkins Glen / Catharine's Town → Cayuga Lake → Seneca Lake Corridor The Finger Lakes were the heartland of Cayuga and Seneca country — prosperous towns, deep orchards, stored
Little Beard's Town: The Burning Road's Darkest Stop Cuylerville / Leicester, NY → Genesee Valley → Letchworth State Park Little Beard's Town in the Genesee Valley was among the last and largest Seneca towns destroyed. 128 dwellings
The Refugee Road: Fort Niagara & the Winter of the Whirlwind Youngstown, NY — Fort Niagara — Lake Ontario After Sullivan's army destroyed the towns and food supplies of the Seneca, Cayuga, Mohawk, and Onondaga
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Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia declared liberty to the world while simultaneously debating how far the new republic would expand into Native homelands. Congress funded the Sullivan campaign from this city. Washington issued his orders from this city.
Washington issued orders for the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign while the war's political machinery operated here. Congress debated western strategy and Native alliances from this building. Begin the tour not with celebration — but with accountability.
Washington enslaved people in this building while ordering the destruction of Haudenosaunee towns. The President's House outdoor exhibit confronts this directly. Use it as the tour's moral framing stop: freedom for whom, land for whom, citizenship for whom.
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The Western Gateway: Treaty, Betrayal & the Ohio Frontier Pittsburgh, PA · Point State Park · Allegheny River Corridor Fort Pitt was the Continental Army's western anchor and the site of the Treaty of Fort Pitt (1778) — the first formal
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The Frontier Burns: Wyoming Valley to Tioga Point Wilkes-Barre, PA → Wyoming, PA → Forty Fort, PA → Athens, PA The Wyoming Valley Massacre of July 1778 — a devastating Loyalist and Haudenosaunee raid on American
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Newtown Battlefield: The Last Stand Before the Burning Chemung, NY → Newtown Battlefield, NY → Elmira, NY Newtown, August 29, 1779, was the only major battle of the Sullivan Campaign. Seneca, Cayuga, Mohawk, and
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Apple Towns: Cayuga & Seneca Homelands of the Finger Lakes Watkins Glen / Catharine's Town → Cayuga Lake → Seneca Lake Corridor The Finger Lakes were the heartland of Cayuga and Seneca country — prosperous towns, deep orchards, stored
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Little Beard's Town: The Burning Road's Darkest Stop Cuylerville / Leicester, NY → Genesee Valley → Letchworth State Park Little Beard's Town in the Genesee Valley was among the last and largest Seneca towns destroyed. 128 dwellings
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The Refugee Road: Fort Niagara & the Winter of the Whirlwind Youngstown, NY — Fort Niagara — Lake Ontario After Sullivan's army destroyed the towns and food supplies of the Seneca, Cayuga, Mohawk, and Onondaga
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