He negotiated the Treaty of Canandaigua, in which the United States pledged annual calico payments to the Six Nations, as the American ambassador to the Iroquois.
He negotiated the Treaty of Canandaigua, in which the United States pledged annual calico payments to the Six Nations, as the American ambassador to the Iroquois. As a colonel, he led an unsuccessful effort to cut off the British retreat from Lexington but was nonetheless made Quartermaster-General in 1780, having earlier published the Continental Army's first field manual. His brief tenure as Secretary of War saw the laying down of the USS Constitution and the founding of West Point, and he famously joined with George Cabot and Theophilus Parsons to found the Essex Junto after being dismissed as Secretary of State by John Adams. For ten points, name this Massachusetts Federalist, ally of Alexander Hamilton, and leader at the Hartford Convention.
He negotiated the Treaty of Canandaigua, in which the United States pledged annual calico payments to the Six Nations, as the American ambassador to the Iroquois.
Timothy {Pickering}