Large Framed Landscape , Walnut intricate frame , appears to say on the back Suso River but that is in the Philippines a closer look showed Susq River for the Susquehanna River , these were common in the 1950s , frame has value here, Weight : Measurements: ................. In 1779 during the Revolutionary War, General James Clinton led an expedition down the Susquehanna from its headwaters. His party had made the upper portion navigable by damming the river's source at Otsego Lake, allowing the lake's level to rise and then destroying the dam and flooding the river for miles downstream. This event is described by James Fenimore Cooper in the introduction to his novel, The Pioneers. At Athens, Pennsylvania, then known as Tioga or "Tioga Point", Clinton met with General John Sullivan's forces, who had marched from Easton, Pennsylvania. Together on August 29, they defeated the Tories and warriors of allied Iroquois bands at the Battle of Newtown (near present-day Elmira, New York). This became known as the "Sullivan-Clinton Campaign" or the "Sullivan Expedition". They swept through that area of western New York, destroying more than 40 Iroquois villages, as well as their stories of crops set aside for winter. Many of the Iroquois went to Canada as refugees; casualties from exposure and starvation were high that winter.

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