Examined in light of modern principles of coalition warfare and low intensity conflict, Mr. Watt’s superb examination of British and First Nations diplomacy and military operations in the critical year of 1778 will interest any military historian. But it is also an essential background for any study of relations between the Crown and First Nations, in a campaign where Native allies were truly partners essential to the preservation of Canada. Watt’s appreciation of the role of First Nations, of women, of marginalized loyalists and even of the internecine politics inside the British, Rebel, and First Nations war efforts is an outstanding contribution to Canadian history and the history of the American Revolution.

Now renowned Canadian historian, Gavin K. Watt, gives us the new definitive history for our era: Building upon Simms’s pioneering interviews from 175 years ago, but also interrogating and integrating those oral histories with a vast array of military correspondence and bureaucratic records from archives that were essentially unavailable in Simms’s day. No one has told this “missing chapter” of the War for American Independence so vividly or so well. A splendid read. In Watt’s lively telling, the “forgotten year” of the Revolution in New York becomes a compulsive, all-night page-turner.

A perfect snapshot of the complicated human dynamics that steered the course of the Revolution.

Gavin K. Watt is the author of eleven books about loyalist military history, including Burning of the Valleys and Rebellion in the Mohawk Valley. He lives in King City, Ontario.

• Acknowledgements
• Comparative Timetable of the 1778 Campaign
• List of Abbreviations
• Chapter One: Lake Champlain, Upper Hudson River, and Lower Quebec
• Chapter Two: Mohawk Region
• Chapter Three: The Wyoming and Wyalusing Campaigns
• Chapter Four: New York’s Midwestern Frontier
• Chapter Five: Returning to the Mohawk Region
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Image Credits
• Index