Joseph Brant
Mohawk leader (1742-1807) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 65
Thayendanegea or Joseph Brant was a Mohawk military and political leader, based in present-day New York and, later, Brantford, in what is today Ontario, who was closely associated with Great Britain during and after the American Revolution.
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Joseph Brant, watercolour by William Armstrong
Joseph Thayendaneken, The Mohawk Chief, 1776.
Portrait of Joseph Brant by Charles Willson Peale (1797)
Joseph Brant, painted in London by Gilbert Stuart in 1786
Statue of Brant in Brantford, Ontario.
1830s lithograph based on the last portrait of Brant, an 1806 oil on canvas painting by Ezra Ames.
Statue of Joseph Brant at the Valiants Memorial in OttawaAwards
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Perhaps the best known North American Indigenous person of his generation, he met many of the most significant American and British people of the age, including both United States President George Washington, King George III of Great Britain, and Major General Isaac Brock.
