Author: Robert C. Alberts

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-07-17

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780282396442

Excerpt from A Charming Field for an Encounter: The Story of George Washington's Fort Necessity A distinguished American historian, Lawrence Henry Gipson, considered this the most important of all the wars the United States has fought. It was destined, he wrote, to have the most momentous consequences to the Amer ican people of any war in which they have been engaged down to our own day - consequences therefore even more momentous than those that flowed from the victorious Revolutionary War or from the Civil War. For it was to de termine for centuries to come, if not for all time, what civili zation - what governmental institutions, what social and economic patterns - would be paramount in North Amer ica. It was to determine likewise whether Americans were to be securely confined to a long but narrow ribbon of territory lying between the coastline and a not too distant mountain chain, and whether their rivals, the French - then considered to be the greatest military power in the world and in control of the Appalachians - were to remain a permanent and effective barrier to any enjoyment of the vast western interior of the continent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.