Check out the story of the Cherry Valley Massacre when you are looking for Revolutionary War atrocities.
Cherry Valley was a town in west, central New York and attacked by Butler?s Rangers and 500 Iroquois and Onondaga Indians who the ?Tories? allied with. The Tories (British) had convinced the Indian tribes that the colonist would take the Indian homelands. The town?s people, colonist, of Cherry Valley were slaughtered and scalped. The slaughter included all residents including all of the women and children. Cherry Valley is where Indians got their reputation for scalping but scalping was a very rare occurrence in the ?old west.?
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