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John Sullivan, Revolutionary War General (26)

Major General John Sullivan, a Distinguish’d Officer in the Continental Army. [London]: Thos. Hart, 1776. Mezzotint engraving. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (26)
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John Sullivan, Revolutionary War General 

Major General John Sullivan (1740—1795), a New Hampshire lawyer, commanded the American forces in a scorched-earth campaign against Mohawk Chief Joseph Brant and the Iroquois Nation and their British and loyalist allies along the Pennsylvania–New York border in 1779. His forces destroyed more than forty Iroquois villages.