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Author : John Forbes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Letters of General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition Against Fort Duquesne in 1758 written by John Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Forbes
Publisher : Metalmark
ISBN 13 : 9780271027555
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Letters of General John Forbes written by John Forbes and published by Metalmark. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is made up of the letters of British general John Forbes, who led the campaign against Fort Duquesne, a pivotal episode in the French and Indian War. Primarily from the year 1758, the letters, to William Pitt, Governor Denny of Pennsylvania, General Sharpe of Maryland, and others, offer readers a firsthand glimpse of the campaign, from the preparation through the expedition to Fort Duquesne and the eventual British capture of the fort, where Pittsburgh now stands. The correspondence is accompanied by various related letters between other key players in the expedition.
Author : John Forbes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Letters of General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition Agains Fort Duquesne in 1758 written by John Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gen John Forbes
Publisher : Westphalia Press
ISBN 13 : 9781633913769
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Letters of General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition Against Fort Duquesne written by Gen John Forbes and published by Westphalia Press. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General John Forbes (1707-1759) was a British Army officer most known for serving during the French and Indian War. The letters contained in this volume are from the Forbes Expedition he led, which was ultimately successful in capturing the French-held Fort Duquesne. The fort was established in 1754, located in what is Pittsburgh today. Ultimately, Fort Du Quesne (as it was originally known) would be destroyed by the British and replaced by Fort Pitt. The site was a highly trafficked trading post and in a strategic location, which resulted in it being constantly under attack. The Forbes Expedition took place in 1758, with the goal of capturing the fort. Forbes led somewhere between 6,000-8,000 soldiers, but had difficulty as he was quite ill with dysentery, so he relied on Lt. Col. Henry Boquet, his second in command. It was a very slow moving process, since the army had to construct roads and traverse the Allegheny Front. This inclusive collection of letters highlights military, medical and other facets of an important episode in American history. The new edition is dedicated to James Denton, enthusiast for American history and publisher of note.
Author : Douglas R. Cubbison
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786455950
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The British Defeat of the French in Pennsylvania, 1758 written by Douglas R. Cubbison and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first complete military study of the campaign directed by Brigadier General John Forbes in 1758 to drive the French out of the forks of the Ohio River. The author details the leadership, logistics, artillery, training and discipline that led to the campaign's success and discusses its role in American Colonial history.
Author : Douglas R. Cubbison
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476621136
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book On Campaign Against Fort Duquesne written by Douglas R. Cubbison and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Seven Years’ War, Sir John St. Clair served as Deputy Quartermaster General with British General Edward Braddock’s disastrous campaign to capture Fort Duquesne at the Forks of the Ohio in 1755. St. Clair had great responsibilities during the campaign and was the first Deputy Quartermaster General in North America’s history. History has laid a litany of blame at Braddock’s feet: he was old, slow, logistically naïve, a martinet poorly versed in tactics, uninterested in his soldiers’ welfare and unwilling to cooperate with the colonists. Based on a new transcription of St. Clair’s correspondence, this comprehensive study of Braddock’s logistics offers a radical reinterpretation of the general and his campaign. The author also presents an examination of St. Clair’s role as quartermaster during Brigadier General John Forbes’ subsequent and successful campaign against Fort Duquesne in 1758.
Author : John Forbes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Writings of General John Forbes Relating to His Service in North America written by John Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Writings on American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Historical Association
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Annual Report written by American Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Huw J. Davies
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300217161
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Wandering Army written by Huw J. Davies and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe “Superb analysis.”—William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal At the outbreak of the War of Austrian Succession in 1742, the British Army’s military tactics were tired and outdated, stultified after three decades of peace. The army’s leadership was conservative, resistant to change, and unable to match new military techniques developing on the continent. Losses were cataclysmic and the force was in dire need of modernization—both in terms of strategy and in leadership and technology. In this wide-ranging and highly original account, Huw J. Davies traces the British Army’s accumulation of military knowledge across the following century. An essentially global force, British armies and soldiers continually gleaned and synthesized strategy from war zones the world over: from Europe to the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Davies records how the army and its officers put this globally acquired knowledge to use, exchanging information and developing into a remarkable vehicle of innovation—leading to the pinnacle of its military prowess in the nineteenth century.
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Total Pages : 308 pages
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Download or read book Writings on American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James G. Lydon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351000012
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Struggle for Empire written by James G. Lydon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1986. The French and Indian War (Seven Years’ War) occurred in the mid-eighteenth century. The concern of this bibliography is with the North American experience in this war, with excursions into the West Indies to examine collateral events which involved Anglo-Americans from what is now the United States. Emphasis is placed on contemporary accounts of this war and upon twentieth century writings, and contains a variety of sources.
Author : John Oliphant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472511786
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book John Forbes: Scotland, Flanders and the Seven Years' War, 1707-1759 written by John Oliphant and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 1758 Brigadier General John Forbes's army expelled the French army from Fort Duquesne at the forks of the Ohio River. Over seven months Forbes had co-ordinated three obstructive and competitive colonies, managed Indian diplomacy, and cut a road through over a hundred miles of mountain and forest. This is the first full biography of Forbes, which traces his rise from surgeon in the Scots Greys to distinguished service in War of the Austrian Succession before his 1757 posting to North America. John Oliphant puts Forbes' life and career in the wider context of the social and military world of the 18th century and offers important insights into the Seven Years' War in North America.
Author : René Chartrand
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849085676
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Tomahawk and Musket written by René Chartrand and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1758, at the height of the French and Indian War, British Brigadier General John Forbes led his army on a methodical advance against Fort Duquesene, French headquarters in the Ohio valley. As his army closed in upon the fort, he sent Major Grant of the 77th Highlanders and 850 men on a reconnaissance in force against the fort. The French, alerted to this move, launched their own counter-raid. 500 French and Canadians, backed by 500 Indian allies, ambushed the highlanders and sent them fleeing back to the main army. With the success of that operation, the French planed their own raid against the English encampment at Fort Ligonier under less than fifty miles away. With only 600 men, against an enemy strength of 4,000, he ordered a daring night attack on the heart of the enemy encampment. This book tells the complete story of these ambitious raids and counter-raids, giving in-depth detail on the forces, terrain, and tactics.
Author : David O. Stewart
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451489004
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book George Washington written by David O. Stewart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and illuminating account of how George Washington became the dominant force in the creation of the United States of America, from award-winning author David O. Stewart “An outstanding biography . . . [George Washington] has a narrative drive such a life deserves.”—The Wall Street Journal Washington's rise constitutes one of the greatest self-reinventions in history. In his mid-twenties, this third son of a modest Virginia planter had ruined his own military career thanks to an outrageous ego. But by his mid-forties, that headstrong, unwise young man had evolved into an unassailable leader chosen as the commander in chief of the fledgling Continental Army. By his mid-fifties, he was unanimously elected the nation's first president. How did Washington emerge from the wilderness to become the central founder of the United States of America? In this remarkable new portrait, award-winning historian David O. Stewart unveils the political education that made Washington a master politician—and America's most essential leader. From Virginia's House of Burgesses, where Washington mastered the craft and timing of a practicing politician, to his management of local government as a justice of the Fairfax County Court to his eventual role in the Second Continental Congress and his grueling generalship in the American Revolution, Washington perfected the art of governing and service, earned trust, and built bridges. The lessons in leadership he absorbed along the way would be invaluable during the early years of the republic as he fought to unify the new nation.
Author : John Franklin Jameson
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Total Pages : 1084 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The American Historical Review written by John Franklin Jameson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.
Author : David Price
Publisher : Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 168261946X
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (826 download)
Download or read book John Haslet’s World written by David Price and published by Knox Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Colonel John Haslet, an Irish immigrant to the American colonies who made the ultimate sacrifice while fighting for his adopted country. During this pivotal moment in America’s war for independence against Great Britain, a newborn nation struggled to survive against a militarily superior force deployed by a mighty empire. This is also a chronicle of the inspirational leadership and service of the Delaware Regiment that Haslet formed and guided, told as part of a more wide-ranging narrative about the 1776 campaign of Washington’s army. That battered but resilient force faced the prospect of total defeat in the winter of 1776–1777 as the quest for American independence hung in the balance.
