destroy the British powder stores behind the city. Arnold is so impressed by Brant's men that he requests that Congress commission them as the First Ranger Regiment of the Continental Army.

Philadelphia after members of the Massachusetts delegation and George Washington insist that they be counted as a thanks for coming to the relief of their state.



Sept. 1787 - Gen. Cook makes an impassioned case for the expressed banning of slavery in the Constitution. While the trade was beginning to decline in Southern States, there was a genuine fear that outright abolition would break the young country. The motion passed, but included a proviso that slave owners would be financially compensated, and those freed slaves be given 20 acres of land in the Yazoo lands ceded from Georgia.



March 1789 - Only five states remain to ratify the Constitution, North Carolina, Rhode Island, the Vermont Republic, the Iroquois Confederacy, and Nova Scotia. Of the final states, Nova Scotia and the Iroquois are the most hesitant to formally join the Union, though lobbying by the Federalists, Col. Brant, and General Cook seems to be eroding opposition. The Hudson Bay Company's territory remains a touchy subject for American and British relations, as it was not considered part of Canada during the Treaty of Paris negotiations and is officially an unincorporated territory belonging to a private company.



Update: This timeline has undergone some significant changes to be a little less ASB.









June. 1775 - As one of his first Acts as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, General George Washington dispatches Benjamin Franklin with a translator to meet with the Grand Council of the Iroquois Confederacy. At the final meeting Franklin reminded Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant) of the power the five nations had when united as a single confederacy by adding a 14th arrow to a bundle of 13 the envoys had brought with them, asking that he try and break the bundle. With Thayendanegea's support, the Iroquois agreed to side with the Colonies against Great Britain, fielding around 1,500 men to the American cause.Dec. 1775 - Battle of Quebec ends in a decisive American victory after General Arnold takes the city with support of the Iroquois under the command of Colonel Joseph Louis Cook, (Akiatonharónkwen). During the battle, a group of experienced irregular fighters commanded by BrantAug - 1776 - The British are ambushed by Brant's Rangers at Long Island and routed by General Washington. General Howe is captured by the rangers in what is the first major victory for General Washington during the war. Washington, impressed by the tactics of the Rangers, asks that they assist in the training of the Continental Army's regular forces, and reaffirms his commitment to honoring their status as a sovereign State once the war is done.Oct. 1776 - Most of the Cherokee nation refuse to join the British in the Revolution, seeing the treatment of the Iroquois by the Americans.Sept. 1777 - General Clinton takes the remaining troops from the New York campaign to Philadelphia. General Washington orders the Rangers to stage an asymmetric campaign against the British and reduce their capacity to fight as they try to hold the city.Dec. 1777 - Col. Brant begins training new Ranger recruits at Valley Forge along side the Continental Army, while the Iroquois donate cold weather boots and blankets to the Continental Army.Feb. 1779 - Col. Brant joins Maj. General John Sullivan on an expedition to destroy or capture British Loyalist weapons cashes and key food supplies, handing those captured over to Iroquois or neighboring revolutionary friendly settlers.Feb. 1780 - General Clinton's reinforcements are repelled in South Carolina by a joint assault by the Continental Army and the French Fleet. End of major fighting in North America.Aug. 1780 - General Cornwallis surrenders at Camden, South Carolina. Ending hostilities in North America.June 1783 - The Treaty of Paris is signed, formally recognizing American claims to former British territory East of the Mississippi, including the Quebec Province. With pressure from General Washington, New York's legislature agrees to honor the provision in the treaty respecting the formal boundary of the Iroquois Confederacy.Sept. 1786 - Shays rebellion is put down after a force of former Rangers and Iroquois militiamen ride from New York to Springfield to assist Gen. Lincoln.Aug. 1787 - Gen. Cook and a group of delegates from the then-unrecognized state of Iroquois join the convention in