Alliances built over centuries can collapse in a single generation. When the American Revolution reached the Iroquois Confederacy, it didn’t just divide loyalties—it turned brother against brother. How did a diplomatic alliance become a civil war within the Six Nations? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary, “The British–Iroquois Alliance and the Fractured Confederacy,” to see how unity gave way to irreversible conflict.
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