An expedition against hostile Indian nations checked the aggressions of the English and Indians on the frontiers of New York and Pennsylvania and extended westward the dominion of the United States. Here, by nightfall of August 29, 1779, only smoke and ashes marked the sites of log cabins and storage sheds and the trampled corn fields of a loyalist "tory" and Indian settlement sometimes called Butlers Newtown. Faced by nearly one third of all the American Continental Forces, the hopes and prestige of the ancient league of Ho-de-no-sau-nee, the fabled "Long House" Confederacy of the Iroquois Six Nations, died here.