Thirty ambassadors came seeking peace. By the end of the council meeting, most of them were dead. In the forests of Western New York, one mysterious death ignited a war that erased an entire nation from the map. What happened inside that council house that turned diplomacy into annihilation? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary, “Settling Old Scores: The Beaver Wars,” to discover how one moment of violence helped unleash a conflict that changed the balance of power across the Great Lakes.
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