The Cherry Valley massacre was an attack by British and Seneca Indian forces on a fort and village in eastern New York on November 11, 1778, during the American Revolutionary War.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
This Day in History: November 11
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It was also Armistice Day in the "war to end all wars" in 1918.
Now known as Veterans Day to commemorate all those who served in all our wars. Especially the ones since "wars ended".
Words are important. It wasn't a Revolution. Revolutions destroy the status quo. Parliament, the Regency and Britain remained intact when the war concluded. It was a War of Independence. And then there's decimated. It means a tenth. Not annihilated.
It was a revolution in ideology--one form of government was abolished and replaced with something that had never been tried before. It was a rebellion in terms of the war itself.
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