Sullivan Expedition

(noun)

The Sullivan Expedition, also known as the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition, was an American campaign led by Major General John Sullivan and Brigadier General James Clinton against Loyalists ("Tories") and the four nations of the Iroquois who had sided with the British in the American Revolutionary War.

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  • Settlers and Native Americans

    • Military expeditions on each side destroyed villages and food supplies to reduce the ability of people to fight, including frequent raids by both sides in the Mohawk Valley and western New York.
    • The largest of these expeditions was the Sullivan Expedition of 1779, in which American colonial troops destroyed more than 40 Iroquois villages in an attempt to neutralize Iroquois raids in upstate New York.
    • The expedition failed to have the desired effect; Native American activity became even more determined.

  • American Indians and the Revolution

    • Military expeditions on each side destroyed villages and food supplies to reduce the ability of people to fight, as in the frequent raids by both sides in the Mohawk Valley and western New York.
    • The largest of these expeditions was the Sullivan Expedition of 1779, in which American colonial troops destroyed more than 40 Iroquois villages to neutralize Iroquois raids in upstate New York.
    • The expedition failed to have the desired effect, as American Indian activity became even more determined.

  • Bibliography

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  • Modern Architecture: Form Follows Function

    • Modern architecture adhered to Louis Sullivan's famous precept, "Form follows function," which called for an absence of ornamentation beyond functional necessity.
    • The great 19th century architect of skyscrapers, Louis Sullivan, promoted an overriding precept to architectural design: "Form follows function".
    • Explain Louis Sullivan's adage, "Form follows function," and its influence on modern architecture

  • Tenements and Overcrowding

    • In January of 1888, Jacob Riis bought a detective camera and went on an expedition to gather images of what life was like in the slums of New York City.
    • Louis Sullivan became a noted architect for using steel frames to construct skyscrapers for the first time while pioneering the idea of "form follows function."

  • Manifest Destiny

    • O’Sullivan, a New York newspaper editor, introduced the concept of “manifest destiny” in the July/August issue of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, in an article titled, "Annexation."
    • O'Sullivan was an influential columnist as a young man, but is now generally remembered only for his use of the phrase "manifest destiny" to advocate the annexation of Texas and Oregon.

  • Changes in Technology

    • The notion that "Form follows function," a dictum originally expressed by Frank Lloyd Wright's early mentor Louis Sullivan, meaning that the result of design should derive directly from its purpose
    • A further development was that of the steel-framed skyscraper in Chicago, introduced around 1890 by William Le Baron Jenney and Louis Sullivan.
    • The work of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright in Chicago, Victor Horta in Brussels, Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona, Otto Wagner and the Vienna Secession in Austria, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow, among many others, can be seen as a common struggle between old and new.

  • The Lewis and Clark Expedition

    • After the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to lead an expedition called the "Corps of Discovery."
    • Having gathered woodsmen from across the country for the expedition, Lewis and Clark set out from St.
    • He died only three years later under circumstances that are still disputed, before he could write a complete account of what the expedition had discovered.
    • The expedition collected hundreds of plant and animal specimens, several of which were named for Lewis and Clark in recognition of their efforts.
    • The information the expedition brought back proved invaluable, not only from a scientific standpoint, but also for purposes of colonization.

  • Spectator Sports

    • John Lawrence Sullivan (October 15, 1858 – February 2, 1918), also known as the Boston Strong Boy, was recognized as the first Heavyweight Champion of gloved boxing from February 7, 1881 to 1892, and is generally recognized as the last heavyweight champion of bare-knuckle boxing under the London Prize Ring rules.
    • In Sullivan's era, no formal boxing titles existed.
    • Modern authorities have retroactively labelled Ryan the "Heavyweight Champion of America," but any claim to Ryan's being a "world champion" would have been dubious; he'd never contended internationally as Sullivan had.
    • Depending on the modern authority, Sullivan was first considered world heavyweight champion either in 1888, when he fought Charley Mitchell in France, or the following year when he knocked out Jake Kilrain in round 75 of a scheduled 80-round bout.

  • Chicago School of Architecture

    • Beman, and Louis Sullivan.
    • Frank Lloyd Wright started in the firm of Adler and Sullivan but created his own Prairie Style of architecture.