In Sullivan's Expedition, the march that destroyed savagery and opened the Keystone and Empire States to civilization, four brigades furnished by the states of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and New Hampshire, with Proctor's Artillery and Parr's Riflemen, took part. At Tioga Point, long the southern door of the Iroquois Confederacy, 5000 troops encamped. Named by the Continentals and garrisoned by 250 soldiers of the 2d New Jersey Regiment under Colonel Israel Shrieve, Fort Sullivan stood here with four block houses, curtains and abatis from August 11th to October 3rd 1779.