The Onion River frontier · 1776-1798
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The Jericho Mutiny in Context, 1776
An interactive documentary
A congressional insult leads back to a vanished frontier post.
In 1798, former Revolutionary officer and Vermont congressman Matthew Lyon saw his military service turned into ammunition in a fight on the floor of Congress. The accusation leads back to an exposed 1776 garrison at Jericho—and into a struggle over the Onion River, today’s Winooski. Follow the surviving record to test what happened and why its meaning changed.