commander, 4 engagements

Battles of John Butler

Loyalist who led an irregular militia unit known as Butler's Rangers on the northern frontier in the American Revolutionary War, 1728 to 1796

John Butler is recorded as a commander at 4 placed engagements in the atlas between 1777 and 1780: 4 battles, all in present-day United States. Taken in date order, the sites lie 517 km apart end to end, 172 km between engagements on average. Most belong to American Revolutionary War (4).

4 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

4 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 1

American Revolutionary War 4

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
6 August 1777	Battle of Oriskany	New York, United States		British victory
3 July 1778	Battle of Wyoming	Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, United States	210 km S	Loyalist-Haudenosaunee victory
29 August 1779	Battle of Newtown	Chemung County, New York, United States	111 km NW	American victory
19 October 1780	Battle of Klock's Field	St. Johnsville, New York, United States	197 km NE	Inconclusive

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Digging.holes, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.