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The 1779 Sullivan Expedition (also known as the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition, the Sullivan Campaign, and the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign) was a United States military campaign during the American Revolutionary War, lasting from June to October 1779, against the four British-allied nations of the Iroquois (also known as the Haudenosaunee).
The Boyd and Parker ambush was a minor military engagement in what is now Groveland, New York on September 13, 1779, during the American Revolutionary War.A scouting patrol of the Sullivan Expedition was ambushed by Loyalist soldiers led by Major John Butler and their Seneca allies led by Cornplanter and Little Beard.
Major-General James Clinton (August 9, 1736 – September 22, 1812) was a Continental Army officer and politician who fought in the American Revolutionary War.. During the war he, along with John Sullivan, led the 1779 Sullivan Expedition against the British-allied Iroquois.
From the Palm Beach Post archives: Hunt for James Sullivan’s riches 28 years after he had wife Lita McClinton killed
While white has been popular for Clinton throughout the campaign, she went with another symbolic color for her concession speech: purple.
Clinton campaign manager John Podesta took the stage, comforting supporters and asking them to head home and rest. The area was silent as crowds obeyed filing out of the venue.
The engagement occurred along a tall hill, now called Sullivan Hill and part of the Newtown Battlefield State Park.The hillside, running southeast to northwest next to the Chemung River, was a mile long at its crest, which rose 600 feet (180 m) above the path at its base leading into the Delaware village of Newtown.
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (née Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat.She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and the first lady of the United States as the wife of Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001.