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Gansevoort at Fort Stanwix:
In the summer of 1777, American forces repulsed British, loyalist, and Indian troops invading western New York.
Continental forces under the command of Colonel Peter Gansevoort occupied Fort Stanwix, a refurbished log-and-earthen fortification midway across New York State. A British army that included nearly a thousand Mohawk Indians under Joseph Brant attacked the garrison, but it help fast during a twenty-day siege, stalling the invasion. Fierce fighting with local militia and rumors that a huge relief force of Continental troops was on its way to break the siege caused the British to abandon the invasion and retreat toward Canada. |