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  "name": "WYOMING VALLEY TRAGEDY",
  "headline": "WYOMING VALLEY TRAGEDY",
  "description": "Perhaps more than any other event, the so-called “Wyoming Massacre” of July 3, 1778 was a rallying cry for launching the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign in retaliation against the Iroquois. One survivor, Col. Zebulon Butler, the military leader of Wyoming Valley, personally led the burnings of Cayuga villages by the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign in September, 1779. The Wyoming killings are memorialized by the eventual Yankee victors in one-sided images and super-heated poems like the ones below… Click this to view a typical but  not  authenticated 19th century depiction: Click this to view another such  not  authenticated version from a painting by F.O.C. Darley: The same viewpoint is expressed in  Gertrude of Wyoming , a 19th century epic poem (1809) by the Scottish poet Thomas Campbell (1777-1844). Beyond praising the virtues of Gertrude, it especially honors a literary figure named Outalissi, a Christianized Oneida. A quintessential “noble savage,” Outalissi stands and dies with the white Civilizers (the sons of “Transatlantic Liberty”) against the onslaught of “unearthly fiends” under the very real Mohawk leader, Joseph Brandt. Click below to read some amazing excerpts:",
  "url": "https://www.sullivanclinton.com/texts/period/archives/wyoming-valley/",
  "inLanguage": "en",
  "identifier": "https://www.sullivanclinton.com/texts/period/archives/wyoming-valley/",
  "datePublished": "2004-04-29",
  "dateModified": "2004-04-29",
  "author": {
    "@type": "Person",
    "name": "Bob Spiegelman"
  },
  "publisher": {
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "Then and Now Project",
    "url": "https://www.sullivanclinton.com"
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    "@id": "https://www.sullivanclinton.com/archives/",
    "name": "Sullivan-Clinton Campaign",
    "url": "https://www.sullivanclinton.com/archives/"
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