General John Sullivan: (A) led pro-American Cherokee troops in campaigns against Lord Cornwallis in North Carolina. (B) surrendered his forces to the Stockbridge Indians in a humiliating defeat. (C) destroyed forty Indian towns in a campaign against the Iroquois. (D) encouraged American forces to treat Indians and their lands "truly well and gently." (E) was a British spy whom pro-American Creek Indians unmasked.

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General John Sullivan: (A) led pro-American Cherokee troops in campaigns against Lord Cornwallis in North Carolina. (B) surrendered his forces to the Stockbridge Indians in a humiliating defeat. (C) destroyed forty Indian towns in a campaign against the Iroquois. (D) encouraged American forces to treat Indians and their lands "truly well and gently." (E) was a British spy whom pro-American Creek Indians unmasked.

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Option: (C) destroyed forty Indian towns in a campaign against the Iroquois.

Explanation:

John Sullivan, a General in the Continental Army, became known for his fights in the Revolutionary War in America. In 1779, after a series of raids and killings in the Pennsylvania frontier, George Washington selected General Sullivan to campaign against the Iroquois. By the time Sullivan expedition ended, destroyed over 40 Indian towns.