{"id":3484,"date":"2022-01-22T22:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T03:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/?page_id=3484"},"modified":"2022-01-23T00:31:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T05:31:02","slug":"american-revolutionary-war","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/?page_id=3484","title":{"rendered":"American Revolutionary War"},"content":{"rendered":"

The American Revolutionary War \/ American War of Independence was occurred from April 19, 1775, to July 4, 1776. It was a conflict between Great Britain and its American colonies. Great Britain had developed close relations with many Native nations through trade. These Native groups occupied territory that was under dispute as the American Colonies wanted it for settlement expansion westward. The Natives joined forces with Britain in an attempt to maintain their lands south of the Great Lakes.<\/p>\n

Native groups that allied with Britain were from the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee also known as the Iroquois Confederacy. They included warriors from Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca, Oneida and Tuscarora Nations. Two of the Mohawk leaders were John Deseronto and Joseph Brant.<\/p>\n

After Britain’s defeat, it ceded all of ‘its’ territory south of Canada to the new Colonial Government in terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1783<\/a>. Britain was willing to give away this land because it thought that the new colonies would be a more favourable trading partner in future due to their anticipated rapid growth in population. It was correct.<\/p>\n

The Native groups were not included in the treaty negotiations, and they believed they had never relinquished it to Britain. The settlement included land almost completely occupied by the Six Nations. Negotiations for territory between Britain and the Native Nations were misleading as they obscured the distinction between “ownership” of the land and “sovereignty” over it.<\/p>\n

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Britain worked to resettle its Native Allies (Loyalists) in Canada and provide some compensation for lands they lost in the new United States. Its plan was to use both Native and European Americans as new settlers in Canada to develop agricultural-based settlements in the areas west of Quebec, and close to Canadian military targets. Thus land grants were along the southern Canada border to resist any future potential American invasion.<\/p>\n

The Seneca were the most westerly of the 6 nations and decided to stay where they were as relocating would spread the Nations out over too great a territory.<\/p>\n

Frederick Haldimand<\/a>: British Officer and Governor of Quebec<\/p>\n

John Deseronto<\/a> (Odeserundiye): Mohawk Chief of the Lower Castle (New York)<\/p>\n

Joseph Brant<\/a> (Thayendanegea): Mohawk of the Upper Castle<\/p>\n

Deseronto took his Mohawk people to an area on the Bay of Quinte, east of Belleville. This land had been “purchased” by Britain from other Natives already in the region. The legitimacy of that “purchase” was disputed by the resident natives. The area is now the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, Ontario.<\/p>\n

Joseph Brant wanted to stay closer to the traditional Six Nations homeland. In 1784 Brant’s Mohawks received a huge tract of land along the Grand River north of Lake Erie and he chose to settle his Mohawk of the Upper Castle there. This land had previously been relinquished by the Mississauga Ojibwa Nation in May 1784. \u00a0The British Crown had purchased the land from the Mississaugas per the “Between the Lakes Treaty<\/a>” of December 7, 1792. The Mississaugas were very welcoming to this treaty, it is reported, as the newcomers were “one of the same people” as themselves.<\/p>\n

The land had been originally negotiated and ceded on May 22, 1784. What was originally intended to provide sufficient land for the Brant Six nations along the Grand River resulted in the Crown acquiring 3 million acres which included the entire Niagara Peninsula, the shore of Lake Ontario from Hamilton east to the Niagara River, and the north shore of Lake Erie from the Niagara River to Cat Fish Creek. This area now includes Hamilton, Cambridge, Waterloo, Guelph, Brantford and St. Catherines. The Mississaugas received \u00a31,180 worth of goods.<\/p>\n

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A census in 1785 showed that Brant led more than 400 Mohawks, several hundred Cayugas and Onondagas, and smaller groups of Senecas, Tuscaroras, Delawares, Nanticokes, Tutelos, Creeks and Cherokees, for a total of 1,843 who settled along the Grand River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The American Revolutionary War \/ American War of Independence was occurred from April 19, 1775, to July 4, 1776. It was a conflict between Great Britain and its American colonies. Great Britain had developed close relations with many Native nations through trade. These Native groups occupied territory that was under […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3073,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3484","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3501,"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3484\/revisions\/3501"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}