[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The principal campaign in which the British Indians were engaged was that undertaken in 1777, to determine the control of the Hudson river. Sweeping down from Canada with his powerful army, Burgoyne recaptured Crown point and Ticon-deroga, while his auxiliaries, the Indians and tories, attacked the defenses more remote from his route. Of these Fort Schuyler2 was the first, against which Colonel Butler marched 1 The reference is not to the lower telligence to the enemy, and in supporting Mohawk castle of which Little Abraham their scouting parties when making in-was chief sachem while his brother Hen-cursions," and that " when the Mohawks drik lived, but to that known as the joined the enemy," they were " left to Praying Mohawks, at the mouth of answer those purposes, and keep posses-Schoharie creek, which maintained at least sion of the land" of the tribe. By his a nominal alliance with the colonists, or direction they were subsequently taken rather observed the neutrality to which prisoners and removed to Albany. — Stone's they had pledged themselves. General Life of Brant, n, 40.