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| Author | : Ian Castle |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 98 |
| Release | : 2013-11-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782002758 |
An illustrated history of the French siege of Fort William Henry in 1757 and the most infamous incident of the French-Indian War: the massacre that inspired the book The Last of the Mohicans. After 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: 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. James Fenimore Cooper's version has coloured our view of the incident, so what really happened? Ian Castle details updated research on the campaign, including some fascinating archaeological work that took place over the last 20 years, updating the view put forward by The Last of the Mohicans.
| Author | : René Chartrand |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 2013-03-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1846035341 |
Featuring information from a previously unpublished journal, an illustrated account of this strategically important battle in Canada.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 | : René Chartrand |
| Publisher | : Greenwood |
| Total Pages | : 104 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
This book recounts the course of the ill-fated British attempt to capture Fort Ticonderoga in 1758 during the French-Indian Wars. The British foolishly attacked Ticonderoga head-on, leading to their defeat and the preservation of French Canada for the time being.
| Author | : René Chartrand |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 155 |
| Release | : 2013-03-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1472803183 |
'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 | : Ben Hughes |
| Publisher | : Westholme Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Canada |
| ISBN | : 9781594161469 |
The 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 | : Stephen Brumwell |
| Publisher | : Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2005-02-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780306813894 |
The true story behind the famous novel The Last of the Mohicans- a gripping account of war, savagery, and survival in early America.
| Author | : Paul Williams |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2017-09-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1476629560 |
Fort William Henry and Fort Phil Kearny were both military outposts of the North American frontier. Both lasted but briefly--about two years from construction until their walls went up in flames. And both saw what were termed "massacres" by Indians outside their walls. This book reexamines the traumatic events at both forts. The Fort William Henry Massacre was condemned by both the British and the French as barbaric. Yet these European powers proved capable of similar crimes. The Fort Phil Kearny defeat, traditionally attributed to Captain William Fetterman's having disobeyed orders, has been scrutinized in recent years. Did the women present at that time write a distorted version of events? It would appear that his second-in-command, the rash Lieutenant George Grummond, led the charge over Lodge Trail Ridge. Or did he?
| Author | : Ian Kenneth Steele |
| Publisher | : New York : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0195058933 |
Steele 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 | : Winthrop Sargent |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 458 |
| Release | : 1856 |
| Genre | : Braddock's Campaign, 1755 |
| ISBN | : |
Contains a history of Braddock's Campaign in 1755 against Fort Duquesne.
| Author | : Michael G Johnson |
| Publisher | : Osprey Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2006-03-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781841769370 |
This book offers a detailed introduction to the tribes of the New England region - the first native American peoples affected by contact with the French and English colonists. By 1700 several tribes had already been virtually destroyed, and many others were soon reduced and driven from their lands by disease, war or treachery. The tribes were also drawn into the savage frontier wars between the French and the British. The final defeat of French Canada and the subsequent unchecked expansion of the British colonies resulted in the virtual extinction of the region's Indian culture, which is only now being revived by small descendant communities.
