Chainbreaker’s War:A Seneca Chief Remembers the America

Description

Chainbreaker’s War takes the modern reader on a startling journey to a supremely exotic place-the mind and memory of an eighteenth-century warrior. Previously accessible only to a scholars| this authentic narrative of a Seneca war chief recounting his experiences during the American Revolution has been edited for readability| freeing at last the clear| strong voice of the Seneca leader known to American colonists as Governor Blacksnake| who| together with the Mohawk chieftain Joseph Brant and other leaders of the powerful Iroquois Confederation scourged the New York and Pennsylvania frontiers.

Chainbreaker’s war path led him to some of the bloodiest episodes of the Revolution| beginning with the Battle of Oriskany and the Wyoming Valley Massacre| and ending with valiant but vain attempts to stop General Sullivan’s armies from destroying Iroquois settlements after George Washington decided they were a greater threat to the fledgling nation than the British armies.