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Author: Allan Greer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-01-11
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13: 1107160642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a new reading of the history of the colonization of North America and the dispossession of its indigenous peoples.
Author: Daniel Marston
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 1135975108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe closest thing to total war before the First World War, the Seven Years' War was fought in North America, Europe, the Caribbean and India with major consequences for all parties involved. This fascinating book is the first to truly review the grand strategies of the combatants and examine the differing styles of warfare used in the many campaigns. These methods ranged from the large-scale battles and sieges of the European front to the ambush and skirmish tactics used in the forests of North America. Daniel Marston's engaging narrative is supported by personal diaries, memoirs, and official reports.
Author: René Chartrand
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-03-20
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 1472803183
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'New France' consisted of the area colonized and ruled by France in North America. This title takes a look at the lengthy chain of forts built by the French to guard the frontier in the American northeast, including Sorel, Chambly, St Jean, Carillon (Ticonderoga), Duquesne (Pittsburgh, PA), and Vincennes. These forts were of two types: the major stone forts, and other forts made of wood and earth, all of which varied widely in style from Vauban-type elements to cabins surrounded by a stockade. Some forts, such as Chambly, looked more like medieval castles in their earliest incarnations. René Chartrand examines the different types of forts built by the French, describing the strategic vision that led to their construction, their impact upon the British colonies and the Indian nations of the interior, and the French military technology that went into their construction.
Author: Fred Anderson
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2012-12-01
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0807838284
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA People's Army documents the many distinctions between British regulars and Massachusetts provincial troops during the Seven Years' War. Originally published by UNC Press in 1984, the book was the first investigation of colonial military life to give equal attention to official records and to the diaries and other writings of the common soldier. The provincials' own accounts of their experiences in the campaign amplify statistical profiles that define the men, both as civilians and as soldiers. These writings reveal in intimate detail their misadventures, the drudgery of soldiering, the imminence of death, and the providential world view that helped reconcile them to their condition and to the war.
Author: Ian McCulloch
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781896941493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn informative history of early Highland regiments of the British army in North America. It collects essays on Highland weapons, uniforms, equipment, bagpipes and specialist soldiers, with a biographical register of various officers that served in the three regiments, including regimental muster rolls and returns.
Author: Matthew C Ward
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2016-09-02
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0750980125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA concise and readable history of the British war against the French for control of Canada.
Author: Russell David Edmunds
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780806125510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the saga of the Fox (or Mesquakie) Indians' struggle to maintain their identity in the face of colonial New France during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The Foxes occupied central Wisconsin, where for a long time they had warred with the Sioux and, more recently, had opposed the extension of the French firearm-and-fur trade with their western enemies. Caught between the Sioux anvil and the French hammer, the Foxes enlisted other tribes' support and maintained their independence until the late 1720s. Then the French treacherously offered them peace before launching a campaign of annihilation against them. The Foxes resisted valiantly, but finally were overwhelmed and took sanctuary among the Sac Indians, with whom they are closely associated to this day.
Author: Edward Rodolphus Lambert
Publisher:
Published: 1838
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLambert provided valuable descriptions of the general history of the area and various towns, detailed specific events, and discussed numerous facets of early American life: religious, political and social. There is a poem, entitled "Old Milford," taken from the Connecticut Gazette, Vol. I, No. 4, 1835, as well as a "History of Milford, Connecticut," written by Lambert in June, 1836 for Historical Collections of Connecticut by John W. Barber. Neither the poem nor the sketch of Milford appears in the printed version.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Published: 1878
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: N.E.S. Griffiths
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 668
ISBN-13: 9780773526990
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite their position between warring French and British empires, European settlers in the Maritimes eventually developed from a migrant community into a distinctive Acadian society. From Migrant to Acadian is a comprehensive narrative history of how the Acadian community came into being. Acadian culture not only survived, despite attempts to extinguish it, but developed into a complex society with a unique identity and traditions that still exist in present day Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
