Friday, 24 June 2016

Iroquois Veterans of the War of 1812

Thmoas Payton posted this and I thought you might like it.
From left to right: John Smoke Johnson, Jacob Warner and John Tutlee.Jacob Warner and John Tutlee were two of the Iroquois warriors who encountered Laura Secord as she approached the British camp to warn of the impending invasion by American troops. The Iroquois led her to Lieutenant Fitzgibbon, whose troops mobilized and overcame the Americans
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