Joseph Brant

One of those soldiers was Molly's brother.

also known as joseph eighteen years later in the midst of john burgoyne's canadian expedition in the summer of seventeen seventy seven joseph brant was now the leader of a new mohawk army like in the previous war they were loyal to the british crown And while their size was dwarfed by the American and British armies, they struck fear in their enemies.

H.W. Brands, in his book Our First Civil War, states that, quote, though as a rule they had less tolerance for casualties than the whites did they were fewer in number and could spare fewer lost further they were motivated not by ideology or emotion but by a cool calculation of interest yet their demonstrated willingness to torture prisoners and mutilate bodies sent a shiver through nearly all the whites who found themselves arrayed against the indians Some of the whites knew exactly what to expect if they fell into Indian hands.

Two junior officers of a patriot militia attached to Fort Stanwix went on a scouting mission and were ambushed by Iroquois.