FORT STANWIX

colonial outpost on the site of Rome, N.Y., controlling a principal route from the Hudson River to Lake Ontario. Originally a French trading center, it was rebuilt by the English general John Stanwix in 1758. The British colonial leader Sir William Johnson signed an important treaty with the Iroquois there in 1768. The fort fell into disrepair until early in the American Revolution, when it was rebuilt by the patriots and called Fort Schuyler. In 1777 (see Saratoga campaign) the fort was held against British and Tory forces until reinforcements under Benedict Arnold helped lift the siege. Fort Stanwix is a national monument (see National Parks and Monuments, table).

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books on: Fort Stanwix  - 339 results

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Radioecology: Proceedings of the First National Symposium on Radioecology Held at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, September 10-15, 1961
Book by Vincent Schultz, Alfred W. Klement Jr.; Reinhold Pub. Corp., 1963
Subjects: Radioecology--Congresses
...microorganisms. In: Proc. of the First National Symposium on Radioecology . In press See Schultz and Klement, 1962 1665. Stanwix, P., and J. Hawthorn. 1961. Strontium-90 from radioactive fallout in central Scotland. Chemistry and Industry . pp...
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Chainbreaker: The Revolutionary War Memoirs of Governor Blacksnake as Told to Benjamin Williams
Book by Governor Blacksnake, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas S. Abler; University of Nebraska Press, 2005
Subjects: Blacksnake--Governor--Ca. 1753-1859, Indians Of North America--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Personal Narratives, Seneca Indians--Biography, Seneca Indians--History
...as one to maintain the Fort Stanwix 1768 line, the Americans...the Six Nations at Fort Stanwix. This was the first step...Thus the meetings at Fort Stanwix were a tripartite...negotiations were held at Fort Stanwix, the west- ern Indians...
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The Centennial Celebrations of the State of New York: Prepared Pursuant to a Concurrent Resolution of the Legislature of 1878, and Chapter 391 of the Laws of 1879
Book by Allen Beach; Weed Parsons & Co. Printers, 1879
Subjects: New York (State)--Capital And Capitol, New York (State)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
...the same as ana or anna . 2. BUILDING OF FORT STANWIX. Page 80. The building of Fort Stanwix, in 1758, is recorded in Documentary History...1758. General Abercrombies order to General Stanwix to erect the fort is there preserved. Fort...
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New York: A Guide to the Empire State
Book by New York State Writers' Program; Oxford University Press, 1940
Subjects: New York (State), New York (State)--Guidebooks
The Site of Fort Stanwix is bounded by Dominick, Willett, Liberty...built in 1758 by Brigadier General John Stanwix to guard the portage between the Mohawk...Indians here and resulted in the Fort Stanwix Treaty of 1768 by which the English...
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Zebulon Butler: Hero of the Revolutionary Frontier
Book by James R. Williamson, Linda A. Fossler, Jon L. Wakelyn; Greenwood Press, 1995
Subjects: Butler, Zebulon--1731-1795, Pioneers--Pennsylvania--Wyoming Valley--Biography, Wyoming Valley (Pa.)--Biography
...WAR: 1769-1771 By the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, October 1768, the Proclamation...Towanda, Pennsylvania, to Fort Stanwix. Thus, the new boundary passed...attending the Congress at Fort Stanwix, to purchase from the Iroquois...
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journal articles on: Fort Stanwix  - 16 results

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On the Road to Canandaigua: the Treaty of 1794
Journal article by Jack Campisi, William A. Starna; American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 19, 1995
Subjects: Indians Of Central America--Periodicals
...1785 they held a conference at Fort McIntosh. As they had at Fort Stanwix, the commissioners offered...central Ohio. 12 The Fort Stanwix and Fort McIntosh treaties...had participated in the Fort Stanwix treaty and had signed away...
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Zuni and Iroquois: Edmund Wilson's "People's History
Journal article by Joseph Fargnoli; CLIO, Vol. 25, 1995
Subjects: Ethnology--Methodology, Iroquois--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Wilson, Edmund--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Zunis--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...authority typical of an earlier ethnography. He writes: "I discovered"; "I had already known about . . . the Treaty of Fort Stanwix"; "I was surprised to discover that my property"; "I paid a visit"; and "I had learned" - all in the first...
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Pontiac: Local Warrior or Pan-Indian Leader?
Journal article by Richard Middleton; Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 32, 2006
Subjects: British colonialism--Social aspects, Indigenous people's land claims, Leadership--Social aspects, Menominees--Crimes against, Menominees--Political activity, Native Americans--Crimes against, Native Americans--Political activity, Native people's land claims
...English, had gone down to Fort Pitt and the other Forts on that Communication...communication between Oswego and Fort Stanwix. Instead they would assist the Mingo to seize the forts on the communication between Presque Isle and Fort Pitt. Their warriors...
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How the Indians Lost Their Land." Law and Power on the Frontier
Journal article by Rodger C. Henderson; Canadian Journal of History, Vol. 42, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier (Book)--Book reviews, The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795-1870 (Book)--Book reviews
...had the most power at the time. In the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix, William Johnson purchased from the Iroquois thousands...the Six Nations to the English. By the 1784 Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the United States compelled the Senecas, Mohawks...
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The Rise and Fall of the Iroquois Confederacy: Its Influence on Early American History
Journal article by Allan S. Mohl; The Journal of Psychohistory, Vol. 34, 2007
...only choice was to take refuge in Fort Niagara where the British provided...the Iroquois signed the Treaty of Fort Stanwix. The Oneidas and Tuscaroras who...voted to reject the treaty of Fort Stanwix. They offered to give back the goods...
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Melville's Last, Grave Joke?
Magazine article by Judy Logan; Melville Society Extracts, February 2002
Subjects: American writers--Behavior, Authors, American--Behavior, Burial--Analysis, Melville, Herman--Behavior, Memorial monuments--Analysis, Sepulchral monuments--Analysis
...and several battles of the War for Independence, and General Gansevoort earned the title Hero of Fort Stanwix when he defended the beseiged fort, saving Albany and thus New York from the British. Melvilles family naturally revered these patriots...
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The American Revolution in Red and Black
Magazine article by Gary B. Nash; Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Vol. 86, Summer 2006
Subjects: African Americans, American Revolution, American history, Children & youth, Colonialism, Declaration of Independence-US, Military history, State government
...everywhere - at Oriskany when the British and their Indian allies defeated the Americans trying to reach the besieged Fort Stanwix, which controlled access to the western Mohawk Valley and the Great Lakes; at Cherry Valley in 1778, when the Iroquois...
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March Letters
Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, March 2000
...Massachusetts Colony; and a century later, fighting with the British against the American Colonists, they failed to take Fort Stanwix, much less Boston. In the 1600s the French did inspire raids like the one on Deerfield, but they lacked the resources...
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Indian Country, NY
Magazine article by Beverly Gage; The Nation, Vol. 271, November 27, 2000
Subjects: Indigenous people's land claims--Analysis, Native people's land claims--Analysis, New York--Political aspects, Oneidas--Political activity
...American Revolution. During its first motorcade, for instance, the group hauled along a makeshift replica of nearby Fort Stanwix, site of a bloody battle during the Revolutionary War. Outside the float, three locals dressed in colonial garb stood...
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Honoring the Past, Shaping the Future
Magazine article by Tom Zimmerman; Soldiers, Vol. 63, June 2008
Subjects: Armed forces, Education, Leadership, Military officers
...founded by British Army Col. John Stanwix in 1757. Located at the intersection...Mountains on their way west. "Stanwix had been ordered here to establish...School eventually relocated to Fort Sam Houston, Texas, educational...World War II, and resumed at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., for the...


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Treasure Has a Tale to Tell
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), January 5, 2008
...exhibition at Arbeia Roman fort in South Shields examines the...names four of the westernmost forts of the Wall - Mais (Bowness...Drumburgh), Uxelodunum (Stanwix) and Cammoglanna (Castlesteads...vessels bear the names of western forts on Hadrians Wall. One is the...vessel bearing the names of four forts on Hadrians Wall.


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encyclopedia articles on: Fort Stanwix  - 13 results

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Fort Stanwix
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FORT STANWIX colonial outpost on the site of Rome...was rebuilt by the English general John Stanwix in 1758. The British colonial leader...Benedict Arnold helped lift the siege. Fort Stanwix is a national monument (see National...
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Stanwix, Fort
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
STANWIX, FORT see Fort Stanwix . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Fort Schuyler
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FORT SCHUYLER ski l r. 1 Name given during the American Revolution to the rebuilt Fort Stanwix , on the site of Rome, N.Y. 2 Fort built on the site of Utica, N.Y., in 1758. 3 Fort built...
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National Parks and Monuments
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...petrified sequoia tree stumps. Fort Frederica MO SE Ga. 1936 241...Island. See Fort Pulaski . Fort Stanwix MO Central N.Y. 1935 16 (6) See Fort Stanwix . Fort Sumter MO SE S.C...458 (55,651) Historic forts and white sand beaches near Pensacola, Fla.; Fort Massachusetts and primitive...
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St. Leger, Barry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...General Burgoyne at Albany. St. Leger laid siege to Fort Stanwix (Fort Schuyler), where Continental troops barred his way...force under Benedict Arnold was moving to relieve Fort Stanwix, they deserted the British, and St. Leger was forced...
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