[3]Also called Mount Independence and Mount Defiance.
[4]Afterwards called Fort Schuyler. It was situated near the present city of Rome, N. Y.
[5]Joseph Brant, a Mohawk chief, who had been educated in England. His Indian name was Thayendanegea.
[6]Major-general Horatio Gates, he came from New England to succeed General Schuyler, but his estate was in Virginia.
[7]A little later Captain Brant with three hundred of his warriors swept through Mohawk valley committing some of the greatest atrocities of the war.
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