Debate: Was Clinton Expedition Genocide? By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com- JOHNSTOWN – The lead-off speaker, Glenn F. Williams, author of “Year of the Hangman: George Washington’s Campaign Against the Iroquois,” had one take. “Washington’s idea was always assimilation, not genocide,” he told 80 historians, researchers and students Saturday, Nov. 2, at the “Sullivan-Clinton Campaign Symposium,” organized by the Fort Plain Museum at Fulton-Montgomery Community College. But G. Peter Jemison, manager of the Ganondagan State Historic Site, near Canandaigua,…
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Sullivan-Clinton Symposium at FMCC
SCHOLARS GATHER AT FMCC Clinton’s Dam, Expedition Against Iroquois Explored William A. Starna, above, SUNY Oneonta professor emeritus of anthropology, describes a schematic of what Clinton’s Dam might have looked like. It was built across the Susquehanna River in Cooperstown, probably in the vicinity of today’s Main Street bridge, during the summer of 1779 and breached on that Aug. 8; the resulting torrent floated 200 bateaux down the Susquehanna in Gen. James Clinton’s expedition against the Iroquois during the American…