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Author: Ben Hughes
Publisher: Westholme Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781594161469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe opening years of the French and Indian War were disastrous for the British. Fort William Henry on the southern shore of New York's Lake George was a key fortification supporting British interests along the frontier with French America.
Author: Ian Castle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-11-20
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1782002766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter the British garrison of Fort William Henry in the colony of New York surrendered to the besieging army of the French commander Marquis de Montcalm in August 1757, it appeared that this particular episode of the French and Indian War was over. What happened next became the most infamous incident of the war – and one which forms an integral part of James Fenimore Cooper's classic novel The Last of the Mohicans – the 'massacre' of Fort William Henry. As the garrison prepared to march for Fort Edward a flood of enraged Native Americans swept over the column, unleashing an unstoppable tide of slaughter. Cooper's version has coloured our view of the incident, so what really happened? Ian Castle details new research on the campaign, including some fascinating archaeological work that has taken place over the last 20 years, updating the view put forward by The Last of the Mohicans.
Author: Ian Kenneth Steele
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 0195058933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSteele makes the case that the massacre at Fort William Henry was not a result of "homicidal" rage, as fictionalized in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, but rather a forseeable collision of attitudes about prisoners of war.
Author: Ben Hughes
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781594165412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ben Hughes
Publisher: Westholme Pub Llc
Published: 2013-11-14
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9781594161926
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImmortalized in The Last of the Mohicans, the French siege of Fort William Henry, a key British fort on New York frontier, was a pivotal battle in the British and French struggle for the North American continent. Seen through the eyes of participants, The Siege of Fort William Henry: A Year on the Northeastern Frontier uses official documents, contemporary newspaper reports, private letters, and published memoirs to bring the narrative to life. From Indian councils on the banks of the Saint Lawrence and bustling military camps in northern New York to the narrative's bloody denouement on the shores of Lake George, the reader is immersed in the colorful, yet brutal world of eighteenth-century northeastern America.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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Published: 1826
Total Pages: 308
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: René Chartrand
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-03-20
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1846035341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeaturing information from a previously unpublished journal, an illustrated account of this strategically important battle in Canada. Louisbourg represented a major threat to Anglo-American plans to invade Canada. Bypassing it would leave an immensely powerful enemy base astride the Anglo-American lines of communication – Louisbourg had to be taken. Faced with strong beach defences and rough weather, it took six days to land the troops, and it was only due to a stroke of daring on the part of a young brigadier named James Wolfe, who managed to turn the French beach position, that this was achieved. The story is largely based on firsthand accounts from the journals of several participants, including French Governor Drucour's, whose excellent account has never been published.
Author: Mike Bunn
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2021-03
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1467148636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn the afternoon of April 9, 1865, some sixteen thousand Union troops launched a bold, coordinated assault on the three-mile-long line of earthworks known as Fort Blakeley. The charge was one of the grand spectacles of the Civil War, the climax of a weeks-long campaign that resulted in the capture of Mobile--the last major Southern city to remain in Confederate hands. Historian Mike Bunn takes readers into the chaos of those desperate moments along the waters of the storied Mobile-Tensaw Delta. With a crisp narrative that also serves as a guided tour of Alabama's largest Civil War battlefield, the book pioneers a telling of Blakeley's story through detailed accounts from those who participated in the harrowing siege and assault.
Author: I. Minis (Isaac Minis) Hays
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2013-12
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781314862508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author: Thomas I. Pieper
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780873382403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFort Laurens was erected on the banks of the Tuscarawas River in Ohio in the fall of 1778 as the planned first step to secure the Western Frontier in the Revolutionary War. This book is the first complete account of the fort's history, drawing on all the documentary evidence available and placing it in the context of the larger struggle for independence.
