National Historic Landmark - Newtown Battlefield

Site of a battle (29 August 1779) that was a result an expedition lead by Maj. Gen. John Sullivan and was the major American military effort of 1779.

General George Washington ordered the Sullivan expedition as a counter-offensive against the Iroquois, who, as allies of the British, in 1778 had raided settlements in the Mohawk Valley of New York and in western Pennsylvania.

Courtesy National Park Service National Historical Landmarks