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Article: Shadow soldiers: captain Joseph Brant: Joseph Brant had the mind of a statesman, the heart of a leader, the soul of a warrior, and had the British prevailed New York might have remained his homeland. Instead he wreaked ferocity upon it within America and brought vengeance upon it from Canada.(BUILDING A NATION)
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- Esprit de Corps
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- April 1, 2009
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Joseph Brant's Mohawk name of 'Thayendanegen' translated into 'he who binds two sticks together' and corresponded with his dream for the Iroquois Confederacy to live in peace and equality with whites.
It implied his calling card to British, French and American whites was diplomacy just as it was with the Indian nations of the confederacy other than the Mohawk: the Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Tuscarora.
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But Brant's name had a more ominous duality: he negotiated with those he could and waged brutal war against those he couldn't; the only exception was the British for they had raised ...