Boyd and Parker ambush

Boyd and Parker ambush
Part of the American Revolutionary War

Groveland Ambuscade Park commemorating the ambush
DateSeptember 13, 1779
Location
Result British (Loyalists and Seneca) victory
Belligerents
 United States  Great Britain
Seneca
Commanders and leaders
United States Lieutenant Thomas Boyd † Major John Butler
Cornplanter
Little Beard
Strength
24 400
Casualties and losses
14 killed
3 captured and killed
7 escaped
1 Seneca killed

The Boyd and Parker ambush was a minor military engagement in what is now Groveland, New York on September 13, 1779, during the American Revolutionary War. A scouting patrol of the Sullivan Expedition was ambushed by Loyalist soldiers led by Major John Butler and their Seneca allies led by Cornplanter and Little Beard.


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