John Sullivan

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Other Names: John Sullivan

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1740

Birth Place: Unknown

Death Date: 1795

Death Place: Unknown

Affiliations: Unknown

Notes: An American General in Revolutionary War, delegate to the Continental Congress, Governor of New Hampshire, and a federal judge. Headed the scorched earth Sullivan Expedition in 1779, which destroyed pro-British Iroquois towns in estern NY and nearly splintered the Confederacy. After 1781, he largely remained in New Hampshire.

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