Chainbreaker's War: A Seneca Chief Remembers the American Revolution An Authentic Narrative edited by Jeanne Winston Adler Books they do not picture the

they do not picture the colonial or revolutionary eras

Told with great authority and clarity it describes and details the effects of each notable event from 1770 to 1781

based largely on real figures

So in 1776

and reinterprets the vagaries of colonial politics to offer a thrilling response to one of our most vexing historical questions: How could a fledgling nation have defeated the most powerful war machine of the era

Chainbreaker's War: A Seneca Chief Remembers the American Revolution An Authentic Narrative edited by Jeanne Winston Adler Books they do not picture theThis authentic narrative of a Seneca war chief recounting his experiences during the American Revolution has been edited for readability, freeing at last the clear, strong voice of the Seneca leader known to American colonists as Governor Blacksnake, who, together with the Mohawk chieftain Joseph Brant and other leaders of the powerful Iroquois Confederation scourged the New York and Pennsylvania frontiers from 1777 to 1783. Chainbreaker's story