Sullivan Expedition

(noun)

The Sullivan Expedition, also known as the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition, was an American campaign led by Major General John Sullivan and Brigadier General James Clinton against Loyalists ("Tories") and the four nations of the Iroquois who had sided with the British in the American Revolutionary War.

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  • Settlers and Native Americans

    • Military expeditions on each side destroyed villages and food supplies to reduce the ability of people to fight, including frequent raids by both sides in the Mohawk Valley and western New York.
    • The largest of these expeditions was the Sullivan Expedition of 1779, in which American colonial troops destroyed more than 40 Iroquois villages in an attempt to neutralize Iroquois raids in upstate New York.
    • The expedition failed to have the desired effect; Native American activity became even more determined.

  • American Indians and the Revolution

    • Military expeditions on each side destroyed villages and food supplies to reduce the ability of people to fight, as in the frequent raids by both sides in the Mohawk Valley and western New York.
    • The largest of these expeditions was the Sullivan Expedition of 1779, in which American colonial troops destroyed more than 40 Iroquois villages to neutralize Iroquois raids in upstate New York.
    • The expedition failed to have the desired effect, as American Indian activity became even more determined.

  • Tenements and Overcrowding

    • In January of 1888, Jacob Riis bought a detective camera and went on an expedition to gather images of what life was like in the slums of New York City.
    • Louis Sullivan became a noted architect for using steel frames to construct skyscrapers for the first time while pioneering the idea of "form follows function."

  • The Lewis and Clark Expedition

    • After the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to lead an expedition called the "Corps of Discovery."
    • Having gathered woodsmen from across the country for the expedition, Lewis and Clark set out from St.
    • He died only three years later under circumstances that are still disputed, before he could write a complete account of what the expedition had discovered.
    • The expedition collected hundreds of plant and animal specimens, several of which were named for Lewis and Clark in recognition of their efforts.
    • The information the expedition brought back proved invaluable, not only from a scientific standpoint, but also for purposes of colonization.

  • Manifest Destiny

    • O’Sullivan, a New York newspaper editor, introduced the concept of “manifest destiny” in the July/August issue of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, in an article titled, "Annexation."
    • O'Sullivan was an influential columnist as a young man, but is now generally remembered only for his use of the phrase "manifest destiny" to advocate the annexation of Texas and Oregon.

  • Spectator Sports

    • John Lawrence Sullivan (October 15, 1858 – February 2, 1918), also known as the Boston Strong Boy, was recognized as the first Heavyweight Champion of gloved boxing from February 7, 1881 to 1892, and is generally recognized as the last heavyweight champion of bare-knuckle boxing under the London Prize Ring rules.
    • In Sullivan's era, no formal boxing titles existed.
    • Modern authorities have retroactively labelled Ryan the "Heavyweight Champion of America," but any claim to Ryan's being a "world champion" would have been dubious; he'd never contended internationally as Sullivan had.
    • Depending on the modern authority, Sullivan was first considered world heavyweight champion either in 1888, when he fought Charley Mitchell in France, or the following year when he knocked out Jake Kilrain in round 75 of a scheduled 80-round bout.

  • The Dutch Empire

    • This charter led to several significant expeditions, and eventually to the creation of the province of New Netherland.
    • In 1614, Adriaen Block led an expedition to the lower Hudson and compiled the first map to apply the name "New Netherland" to the area between English Virginia and French Canada.
    • After some early trading expeditions, the first Dutch settlement in the Americas was founded at Fort Nassau in 1615, near present-day Albany.
    • In 1664, an English naval expedition ordered by the Duke of York and Albany (later James II of England) sailed intp the harbor at New Amsterdam, threatening to attack.

  • The Rise of the City

    • Louis, finished in 1891, exemplifies architect Louis Sullivan's ideas of form following function, which was a new principle in urban architecture of the period.

  • The Seven Years' War: 1754-1763

    • Three prominent French expeditions took place between 1747-1754 under the leadership of Pierre-Joseph Céloron, Charles Michel de Langlade, and Paul Marin de la Malgue, respectively.
    • The purpose of these expeditions was to remove British influence from the Ohio Country and to confirm and enforce the allegiance of the Native Americans inhabiting the area to the French crown.
    • Governor Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia responded to the French expeditions in 1753 by ordering Major George Washington of the Virginia militia to send a message to the commander of the French forces in the Ohio Country, Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre.

  • The British Empire

    • Wherever he landed, though, it is believed that the members of his expedition were the first Europeans to set foot in North America since the Vikings.
    • Encouraged, he asked the English monarchy for a more substantial expedition to further explore and settle the lands that he found.
    • Raleigh himself never visited North America, although he led expeditions in 1595 and 1617 to South America's Orinoco River basin in search of the legendary golden city of El Dorado.
    • In 1611, Hudson discovered a strait and immense bay on his final expedition while searching for the Northwest Passage.