| 词条 | Town Destroyer |
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HistoryWashington was given the name in 1753 by the Seneca leader Tanacharison (the "Half-King"). The nickname had previously been given to his great-grandfather John Washington in the late seventeenth century. He had participated in an effort to suppress a Native American uprising in Virginia and Maryland that involved members of both the Susquehannah and the Piscataway, an Algonquian tribe that lived across the Potomac River from Mount Vernon. Following the massacre of five chiefs who had come out to negotiate under a flag of truce to the colonists, the Susquehannahs gave John Washington an Algonquian name that translated to "town taker" or "devourer of villages." The elder Washington's reputation was remembered and when the Native Americans met his great-grandson in 1753 they called George Washington by the same name, Conotocarious.[2][3] Washington referred to himself as "Conotocaurious" in a letter he wrote to Andrew Montour dated October 10, 1755, in which he entreated the Oneida to resettle on the Potomac: Recommend me kindly to our good friend Monacatootha, and others; tell them how happy it would make Conocotarious to have an opportunity of taking them by the hand at Fort Cumberland, and how glad he would be to treat them as brothers of our Great King beyond the waters.[4] In 1779 during the American Revolutionary War, the Sullivan Expedition, under Washington's orders, destroyed at least 40 Iroquois villages in New York, from which the tribe had attacked American settlements. In 1790, the Seneca chief Cornplanter told President Washington: "When your army entered the country of the Six Nations, we called you Town Destroyer."[5] Notes1. ^{{cite book|last1=Congdon|first1=Charles Edwin|last2=Deardorff|first2=M.H.|title=Allegany oxbow: a history of Allegany State Park and the Allegany Reserve of the Seneca Nation|date=1967|url=https://books.google.com/?id=UI0IAQAAMAAJ&q=Conotocaurious&dq=Conotocaurious}} 2. ^"Conotocarious." George Washington's Mount Vernon website, 2018. 3. ^Grizzard, Frank E. Jr. [https://books.google.la/books?id=RioTGCygpT8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=Conotocarious&f=false George Washington: A Biographical Companion], 2002. p. 53. 4. ^Charles Augustus Hanna, 1911 The Wilderness Trail Vol I p. 236. 5. ^"[https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-20-02-0661 From George Washington to Major General John Sullivan, 31 May 1779]." Founders Online, National Archives and Records Administration. References{{sisterlinks|George Washington}}{{refbegin}}
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