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thank you for joining the American Revolution.

This week, episode 291,

the Mohawk Valley Raids of 1781. We last left the Mohawk Valley of New York back in

episode 270 with the Battle of Stone Arabia and Clocksfield. Raids from British

loyalists in Iroquois subsided over the winter, but had not

given up on driving the Americans out of upstate New York.

On February 5, 1781, New York Governor George Clinton wrote to the Continental Congress about the New York frontier.

He said over 330 people have been killed or taken prisoner in 1780, six forts, and hundreds of houses and barns had been destroyed.

The enemy had driven off hundreds of cattle and destroyed most of the grain fields. Many people of course had already fled the region,

but those who remained were under no illusions that the spring would not bring another round

of brutal raids and combat. By March of 1781, small Indian War parties began raiding

farms and small settlements. These quick hit-and-round operations were designed to inflict harm and then the attackers disappear before a counterattack could come.

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