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This week, episode 197, Kobelskiel and German Flats.

The Mohawk Valley in upstate New York had been the scene of repeated fighting.

Even before the war, fighting with the French and Indians had accustomed the inhabitants to a regular threat of violent attack.

Beginning with the capture of Fort Ticonderoga in 1775, divisions between Patriots in the area, as well as internal divisions among the Indian tribes, led to some of the most brutal and merciless combat of the war.

Most of the loyalists in upstate New York had fled to Quebec.

Many of them had joined the Berghoyne campaign to return to the Mohawk Valley and

retake the area for the king. Many Indian tribes also joined the British

effort. Notably, as I've mentioned in previous episodes, the Mohawk and a few other members of

the Iroquois Confederation threw off their traditional neutrality

to support the British. Other Iroquois, including many warriors from the Oneiida and the Tuscarora tribes back the Patriots.

This division led to a civil war not only between local colonists but also within the Iroquois

Confederation.

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