A Company of Heroes
A Company of Heroes

Author: Dale Van Every

Publisher:

Published: 2018-07-13

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 9781983379109

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Welcome to the brutal frontier of the Revolutionary War... The year is 1775, and land-hungry settlers are trying to infiltrate the ""back country"", an unexplored region beyond the mountains extending west and south from New York into Ohio, Kentucky and Virginia. Control of this region was no less important than the better-known eastern campaigns of Washington and his generals in deciding the outcome of the Revolutionary War. The British decided to recruit their ferocious Indian allies into dealing with the resistance of the settlers, encouraging them to wreak havoc. The Indians raided as they pleased, bringing horror with them, kidnapping, scalping, torturing, burning captives alive: the settlers retaliated in kind, butchering even friendly Indians. Two great leaders emerged from this bloody conflict; Joseph Brant, the brilliant, educated Indian, who hated Americans with cause, and the superb frontiersman George Rogers Clark. Every horrific detail of their skill, leadership and bravery is captured perfectly in this comprehensive edition. Born in 1896, American author Dale Van Every turned out a number of volumes on American history, including a biography of Charles Lindbergh. Van Every was also a busy playwright in the 1920s; his Broadway offering Telling the World was filmed in 1929, whereupon the writer set up shop in Hollywood. His screenplays include the literary adaptations Trader Horn (1931) and Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932). In 1937, he shared an Oscar nomination for the film version of Kipling's Captains Courageous. In 1940, Dale Van Every produced the Paramount actioner Rangers of Fortunes, then returned to screenwriting, remaining in this field until 1957.

Restoring the Chain of Friendship
Restoring the Chain of Friendship

Author: Timothy D. Willig

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2008-05-01

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 0803248172

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During the American Revolution the British enjoyed a unified alliance with their Native allies in the Great Lakes region of North America. By the War of 1812, however, that ?chain of friendship? had devolved into smaller, more local alliances. To understand how and why this pivotal shift occurred, Restoring the Chain of Friendship examines British and Native relations in the Great Lakes region between the end of the American Revolution and the end of the War of 1812. ΓΈ Timothy D. Willig traces the developments in British-Native interaction and diplomacy in three regions: those served by the agencies of Fort St. Joseph, Fort Amherstburg, and Fort George. During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the Native peoples in each area developed unique relationships with the British. Relations in these regions were affected by such factors as the local success of the fur trade, Native relations with the United States, geography, the influence of British-Indian agents, intertribal relations, Native acculturation or cultural revitalization, and constitutional issues of Native sovereignty and legal statuses. Assessing the wide variety of factors that influenced relations in each of these areas, Willig determines that it was nearly impossible for Britain to establish a single Indian policy for its North American borderlands, and it was thus forced to adapt to conditions and circumstances particular to each region.

British Foreign Policy in an Age of Revolutions, 1783-1793
British Foreign Policy in an Age of Revolutions, 1783-1793

Author: Jeremy Black

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994-04-14

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 9780521466844

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In 1783 Britain had lost America and was unstable domestically. By 1793 it had regained its position as the leading global power. Three successive crises are examined during the intervening years in an effort to throw light on the British state in an "Age of Revolutions" and a crucial period of international development.

European and Native American Warfare 1675-1815
European and Native American Warfare 1675-1815

Author: Armstrong Starkey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1135363390

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Re-examines the European invasion of North America in the 17th- and 18th-centuries. Challenging the historical tradition thta has denigrated Indians as "savages" and celebrated the triumph of European "civilization", the author of this text presents milit

Britain and America Since Independence
Britain and America Since Independence

Author: Howard R Temperley

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-03-14

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1349879711

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When the War of Independence ended in 1783, many doubted the ability of Americans to build a nation. Today the United States occupies a position comparable to that of Britain at the zenith of its power. Britain and America since Independence deals with Anglo-American relations in the widest sense. It shows how the transfer of hegemony from the British Empire to the United States affected the way Britons and Americans viewed one another, and its effect on the evolving social, economic and political connections between the two countries. Inspite of political separation, geographical distance, and intermittent periods of hostility, the British have never regarded Americans as 'foreigners'. Americans, in turn, have looked to Britain as the source of their language and culture. Nevertheless, as Howard Temperley shows in this far-ranging study of the two societies, these affinities have often given rise to misunderstanding and confusion - as in the current conflict between Britain's allegiance to the 'special relationship', and America's belief that the future of Britain lies in Europe.