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The Siege of Fort Stanwix (also known at the time as Fort Schuyler) began on August 2, 1777, and ended August 22. Fort Stanwix, in the Mohawk River Valley, was then the primary defense point for the Continental Army against British and Indian forces aligned against them in the American Revolutionary War. The fort was occupied by Continental Army forces from New York and Massachusetts under the command of Colonel Peter Gansevoort.

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  • The Siege of Fort Stanwix (also known at the time as Fort Schuyler) began on August 2, 1777, and ended August 22. Fort Stanwix, in the Mohawk River Valley, was then the primary defense point for the Continental Army against British and Indian forces aligned against them in the American Revolutionary War. The fort was occupied by Continental Army forces from New York and Massachusetts under the command of Colonel Peter Gansevoort.
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  • Siege of Fort Stanwix
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  • *5 killed
  • Indians
  • (Oriskanycasualties included)
  • *32 killed, captured, or missing
  • *34 wounded or sick
  • *41 captured or missing
  • *47 wounded or sick
  • British, Hessian, Loyalist
combatant
  • *Hesse-Hanau
  • 1st Canadian Regiment
  • Iroquois
  • *Canadian loyalists
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place of military conflict
result
  • American victory
strength
  • 750 British,Hessian,Loyalists, andCanadians
  • 750 regulars (Gansevoort)
  • 800 militia (Herkimer)
  • 800Iroquois
  • 700 regulars, 100–300 militia and Indians (Arnold)
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