Editing Amerindian Genocide (section)

==== [[Sullivan Expedition]] ====
In 1779, during the [[American Revolutionary War]], American generals [[John Sullivan]] and [[James Clinton]] conducted a series of attacks on Iroquoian villages by employing scorched earth tactics to destroy their crops and villages. The expedition was enacted under the orders of George Washington to put an end to attacks by Iroquoian people and Loyalists sympathetic to the British and was mostly done in retaliation to the [[Cherry Valley massacre]] of 1778. After the expedition, the economy of the Iroquois Confederacy was severely devastated and many people died from disease.