The other leader was a famous chief of the Mohawks, Thayendanegea, or, to give him his English name, Joseph Brant, half savage still, but also half civilized and half educated, because he had had a careful schooling and for a brief day had been courted by London fashion.

He exerted a formidable influence with his own people.

The Indians were not, however, all on one side.

Half of the six tribes of the Iroquois were either neutral or in sympathy with the Americans.

Among the savages, as among the civilized, the war was a family quarrel, in which brother fought brother.