14/25 They then drove back with great loss a second party which Burgoyne had sent to support the first one. Oriskany, 1777 .-- Meantime St.Leger, with a large body of Indians and Canadian frontiersmen, was marching to join Burgoyne by the way of Lake Ontario and the Mohawk Valley. Near the site of the present city of Rome in New York was Fort Schuyler, garrisoned by an American force. St.Leger stopped to besiege this fort. The settlers on the Mohawk marched to relieve the garrison and St.Leger defeated them at Oriskany. |