Historic New York
The Oneida Country
The Oneida Indians joined the Mohawks. Onondagas, Cayugas and Senecas, about 1550, to form the Five Nations, or Iroquois Confederacy. This was the legendary "Great Peace" made by the Indian statesmen Hiawat…
Historic New York
Site Of The Battle Of Oriskany,
August 6, 1777
Oriskany Battlefield
(Eight miles west of Utica)
The Battle of Oriskany was one of the bloodiest engagements of the American Revolution. British and Indians here ambushed the Tr…