The old New York frontier : its wars with Indians and Tories, its missionary schools, pioneers, and land titles, 1614-1800 . won success onthe Continent in a titanic war only half a generationbefore, and which, a generation later, was to wage warsuccessfully against Napoleon, failed to subdue thearmies of Washington in America. He well under-stood his own weakness—the inferiority of his troops,alike in their numbers and in their military expe-rience—but he perceived, with the faultless eye of awar genius, that to England success might be pos-sible on the seaboard, but difficult in the interior
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The old New York frontier : its wars with Indians and Tories, its missionary schools, pioneers, and land titles, 1614-1800 . won success onthe Continent in a titanic war only half a generationbefore, and which, a generation later, was to wage warsuccessfully against Napoleon, failed to subdue thearmies of Washington in America. He well under-stood his own weakness—the inferiority of his troops, alike in their numbers and in their military expe-rience—but he perceived, with the faultless eye of awar genius, that to England success might be pos-sible on the seaboard, but difficult in the interior;for to that territory retreat lay always open to him. Hence, his campaigns were defensive. He wasnever aggressive, except when, as happened at Tren-ton and Princeton, at Monmouth and Yorktown, he found the enemy at complete disadvantage.Well might Cornwallis call him an old fox whomhe had run down one day on the Delaware andvainly believed he could bag the next morning—a morning which, instead, brought to Washingtonthe splendid victory of Trenton, followed soonafterward by that masterful triumph at Princeton i96. THE BATTLE OF ORISKANY which moved the aged Frederic the Great to sendhim a sword. In this frontier warfare, as in the campaign ofBurgoyne, the British sought to weaken Washing-ton from the rear. With the Indians for allies afterOriskany, their aim each summer thenceforth wasto attract away from the Hudson Valley forces sta-tioned for its defence. In that lay the purpose ofthe expeditions to Wyoming and CHerry Valley, the forces sent out to meet General Sullivan andthe campaigns that, in the last year but one of thewar lighted conflagrations throughout the Mohawkand Schoharie valleys, and struck terror to thehearts of their defenceless people. 197 PART V Overthrow of the Frontier 1777-1778 Alarm Among theSettlements 1777-1778 SCARCELY had the noise of battle died awayfrom Oriskany and Fort Schuyler, when freshinvasions from Indians and Tories occurred.Bands of the