Joseph Brant: Letter to Lord George Germain
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Abstract
Joseph Brant was a Mohawk military and political leader who was closely aligned with Great Britain during and after the American Revolution. Brant was not born into the upper echelons of Native American society but gained prominence in the Iroquois League—of which the Mohawk were a part—because of his education, charisma, military talents, and connections with British colonial officials. Brant was fluent in English and spoke at least three Iroquoian languages. These skills made him an outstanding diplomat. Having studied at Eleazer Wheelock’s Indian Charity School in Connecticut, he became a political ally of Sir William Johnson, superintendent for Indian Affairs. The alliance between the pair was cemented by Johnson’s marriage to Brant’s sister. At the onset of the American Revolution, Brant led the Mohawks and many Iroquois to side with the British. He raised a band of volunteer guerillas and was successful in a number of irregular operations in New York and along the frontier, earning the unflattering epithet “Monster Brant” from his colonial opponents. Brant was not just a war leader, however. He was also a deft politician. Through his diplomatic efforts in England, was able to advocate for Native Americans’ distinctive concerns. In this letter to British secretary of state Lord George Germain, Brant made it clear to his British allies that Iroquois participation in the American Revolution was based, in part, on the expectation that the British would protect Native homelands from further colonial intrusion. After the American Revolution, Brant continued to exercise great political influence, working as a mediator between Native Americans across the frontier, the British based in Canada, and the new United States.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.008 | 0.012 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.029 | 0.015 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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