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Book Synopsis The French & Indian War in Western Pennsylvania by : Robert M Dunkerly
Download or read book The French & Indian War in Western Pennsylvania written by Robert M Dunkerly and published by History Press. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War of Empires The colonial frontier of Western Pennsylvania set the stage for the fight over control of North America and the promise of the American West. The war began in the Commonwealth and the defenses, roads and skirmishes fought in the Western part of the state defined the war and the early career of George Washington. Join author Robert M. Dunkerly as he reveals the harrowing history of the French and Indian War in Western Pennsylvania.
Book Synopsis The Indian wars of Pennsylvania by : C.H. Sipe
Download or read book The Indian wars of Pennsylvania written by C.H. Sipe and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1931 with total page 827 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian wars of Pennsylvania an account of the Indian events, in Pennsylvania, of the French and Indian war, Pontiac's war, Lord Dunmore's war, the revolutionary war, and the Indian uprising from 1789 to 1795 tragedies of the Pennsylvania frontier.
Book Synopsis Frontier in Flames by : George Kotlik
Download or read book Frontier in Flames written by George Kotlik and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-14 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1755. France and Britain wage a brutal war in the North American wilderness. The Crown dispatches General Braddock, commander of all British military forces in the North American colonies, to put an end to the French threat. As Braddock blunders through the wilderness, his army faces a tragic defeat at the hands of the French and their Native allies. Braddock is killed and his force makes a hasty retreat leaving the Pennsylvania backcountry completely exposed to French and Indian raids. Later that year, the frontier collapses. Without assistance from the Pennsylvania Government, a body too weak to defend its own citizens, it is up to the average backwoodsmen to defend their own homes from the French raiders. This story follows a man by the name of Henry Lawrence, who fights against all odds to keep his family together as the world shatters around them.24,000 words.
Book Synopsis Outposts of the War for Empire by : Charles Morse Stotz
Download or read book Outposts of the War for Empire written by Charles Morse Stotz and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reissued hardcover edition thoroughly examines colonial era forts through narrative and illustration. It offers information about their physical attributes as well as why they were built.
Book Synopsis Braddock's Defeat by : David Lee Preston
Download or read book Braddock's Defeat written by David Lee Preston and published by Pivotal Moments in American Hi. This book was released on 2015 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 9, 1755, British and colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock suffered a crushing defeat to French and Native American enemy forces in Ohio Country. Known as the Battle of the Monongahela, the loss altered the trajectory of the Seven Years' War in America, escalating the fighting and shifting the balance of power. An unprecedented rout of a modern and powerful British army by a predominantly Indian force, Monongahela shocked the colonial world--and also planted the first seeds of an independent American consciousness. The culmination of a failed attempt to capture Fort Duquesne from the French, Braddock's Defeat was a pivotal moment in American and world history. While the defeat is often blamed on blundering and arrogance on the part of General Braddock--who was wounded in battle and died the next day--David Preston's gripping new work argues that such a claim diminishes the victory that Indian and French forces won by their superior discipline and leadership. In fact, the French Canadian officer Captain Beaujeu had greater tactical skill, reconnaissance, and execution, and his Indian allies were the most effective and disciplined troops on the field. Preston also explores the long shadow cast by Braddock's Defeat over the 18th century and the American Revolution two decades later. The campaign had been an awakening to empire for many British Americans, spawning ideas of American identity and anticipating many of the political and social divisions that would erupt with the outbreak of the Revolution. Braddock's Defeat was the defining generational experience for many British and American officers, including Thomas Gage, Horatio Gates, and perhaps most significantly, George Washington. A rich battle history driven by a gripping narrative and an abundance of new evidence,Braddock's Defeat presents the fullest account yet of this defining moment in early American history.
Download or read book American Advance written by Rock Dilisio and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French and Indian War is said to be the first true world war, where world powers, Britain and France, collided over the tempting prosperity of North America. Much of the war was fought over the control of an extremely sought after, strategic piece of ground, known as the Forks, where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers meet to form the mighty Ohio. Now the City of Pittsburgh, this location was the portal to the west, and control of it would garner possibilities and riches beyond imagination. No other piece of ground on American soil has ever been so coveted. Britain was the ultimate victor, and with it came the opportunities for their American colonists to move westward, and establish communities. Virginia colonists were the first to take advantage. The westward movement began with the construction of a settlers fort, named Fort Vance, which was established ten miles down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, in what is today Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. This is where the west began.
Author :Louis M. Waddell Publisher :Harrisburg : Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission ISBN 13 : Total Pages :132 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (334 download)
Book Synopsis The French and Indian War in Pennsylvania, 1753-1763 by : Louis M. Waddell
Download or read book The French and Indian War in Pennsylvania, 1753-1763 written by Louis M. Waddell and published by Harrisburg : Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. This book was released on 1996 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Miscellaneous French and Indian War Era Information, Correspondence, and Journals Regarding Western Pennsylvania by :
Download or read book Miscellaneous French and Indian War Era Information, Correspondence, and Journals Regarding Western Pennsylvania written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Historical Survey, Frontier Forts & Trails Survey; Sylvester K. Stevens & Donald H. Kent, editors (2nd, rev.ed.).--Who was Pierre Joseph Celoron de Blainville/Norman P. Carlson (1983).--History on My doorstep: Searching for The Celoron of Celoron Street, in which the author, Stephen Finegold, seeks to answer: If this French explorer were worth remembering, why did they name such a minor street after him?/Stephen Finegold.--Journal of Expedition, 1749/Pierre Joseph Celoron.--Account of the voyage on the beautiful river made in 1749, under the direction of Monsieur DeCeloron, by Father Bonnecamps.--The journal of Christopher Gist, 1750-1751/Lewis P. Summers exerpt from Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800.--Journal of Conrad Weiser (1748).--Celoron to Vandreuil (1751).--Croghan's Transactions with the Indians (1748).--Who Made the "Trader's Map"?/Howard N. Evanston.--Longueuil to the French Minister (1752)/Charles le Moyne Longueuil.--Journal of Captain William Trent (1752).--John Frazier to Young (Correspondence, 8-27-1753).--George Washington's Journal transcribed from The Maryland Gazette (March 1754).--A list of Indian names, their places of abode and chief hunting (1759)/in Accounts of the western Indians, by Stevens (1943).--Pontiac's conspiracy (1762-1763)/E.O.Randall in Pontiac's conspiracy (1903).--Extract from the Journal of Major John Smith, 1756-1757.--Manners and custome of the savage tribes/from Travels in New France(1941)).
Book Synopsis Breaking The Backcountry by : Matthew C. Ward
Download or read book Breaking The Backcountry written by Matthew C. Ward and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2003-11-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even as the 250th anniversary of its outbreak approaches, the Seven Years' War (otherwise known as the French and Indian War) is still not wholly understood. Most accounts tell the story as a military struggle between British and French forces, with shifting alliances of Indians, culminating in the British conquest of Canada. Scholarly and popular works alike, including James Fennimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, focus on the action in the Hudson River Valley and the St. Lawrence Seaway. Matthew C. Ward tells the compelling story of the war from the point of view of the region where it actually began, and whose people felt the devastating effects of war most keenly-the backcountry communities of Virginia and Pennsylvania. Previous wars in North America had been fought largely on the New England and New York frontiers. But on May 28, 1754, when a young George Washington commanded the first shot fired in western Pennsylvania, fighting spread for the first time to Virginia and Pennsylvania. Ward's original research reveals that on the eve of the Seven Years' War the communities of these colonies were isolated, economically weak, and culturally diverse. He shows in riveting detail how, despite the British empire's triumph, the war brought social chaos, sickness, hunger, punishment, and violence, to the backcountry, much of it at the hands of Indian warriors.Ward's fresh analysis reveals that Indian raids were not random skirmishes, but part of an organized strategy that included psychological warfare designed to make settlers flee Indian territories. It was the awesome effectiveness of this "guerilla" warfare, Ward argues, that led to the most enduring legacies of the war: Indian-hating and an armed population of colonial settlers, distrustful of the British empire that couldn't protect them. Understanding the horrors of the Seven Years' War as experienced in the backwoods thus provides unique insights into the origins of the American republic.
Book Synopsis The Indian Wars of Pennsylvania by : Chester Hale Sipe
Download or read book The Indian Wars of Pennsylvania written by Chester Hale Sipe and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Friends and Enemies in Penn's Woods by : Daniel Richter
Download or read book Friends and Enemies in Penn's Woods written by Daniel Richter and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two powerfully contradictory images dominate historical memory when we think of Native Americans and colonists in early Pennsylvania. To one side is William Penn&’s legendary treaty with the Lenape at Shackamaxon in 1682, enshrined in Edward Hicks&’s allegories of the &"Peaceable Kingdom.&" To the other is the Paxton Boys&’ cold-blooded slaughter of twenty Conestoga men, women, and children in 1763. How relations between Pennsylvanians and their Native neighbors deteriorated, in only 80 years, from the idealism of Shackamaxon to the bloodthirstiness of Conestoga is the central theme of Friends and Enemies in Penn&’s Woods. William Pencak and Daniel Richter have assembled some of the most talented young historians working in the field today. Their approaches and subject matter vary greatly, but all concentrate less on the mundane details of how Euro- and Indian Pennsylvanians negotiated and fought than on how people constructed and reconstructed their cultures in dialogue with others. Taken together, the essays trace the collapse of whatever potential may have existed for a Pennsylvania shared by Indians and Europeans. What remained was a racialized definition that left no room for Native people, except in reassuring memories of the justice of the Founder. Pennsylvania came to be a landscape utterly dominated by Euro-Americans, who managed to turn the region&’s history not only into a story solely about themselves but a morality tale about their best (William Penn) and worst (Paxton Boys) sides. The construction of Pennsylvania on Native ground was also the construction of a racial order for the new nation. Friends and Enemies in Penn&’s Woods will find a broad audience among scholars of early American history, Native American history, and race relations.
Author :R. Scott Stephenson Publisher :Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania ISBN 13 :9780936340135 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (41 download)
Book Synopsis Clash of Empires by : R. Scott Stephenson
Download or read book Clash of Empires written by R. Scott Stephenson and published by Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conflict that Winston Churchill called the first First World War profoundly shaped the history of North America. Stephenson spent more than a decade locating art, objects, and manuscripts that tell the story of this colourful and dramatic clash of empires. Filled with illustrations and sidebars, this volume accompanies a major travelling exhibit and serves as a deluxe commemorative issue of the esteemed 'Western Pennsylvania History' journal.
Book Synopsis The French and Indian War by : Walter R. Borneman
Download or read book The French and Indian War written by Walter R. Borneman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1754, deep in the wilderness of western Pennsylvania, a very young George Washington suffered his first military defeat, and a centuries-old feud between Great Britain and France was rekindled. The war that followed would be fought across virgin territories, from Nova Scotia to the forks of the Ohio River, and it would ultimately decide the fate of the entire North American continent—not just for Great Britain and France but also for the Spanish and Native American populations. Noted historian Walter R. Borneman brings to life an epic struggle for a continent—what Samuel Eliot Morison called "truly the first world war"—and emphasizes how the seeds of discord sown in its aftermath would take root and blossom into the American Revolution.
Book Synopsis Empires at War by : William M. Fowler Jr.
Download or read book Empires at War written by William M. Fowler Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empires at War captures the sweeping panorama of this first world war, especially in its descriptions of the strategy and intensity of the engagements in North America, many of them epic struggles between armies in the wilderness. William M. Fowler Jr. views the conflict both from British prime minister William Pitt's perspective-- as a vast chessboard, on which William Shirley's campaign in North America and the fortunes of Frederick the Great of Prussia were connected-- and from that of field commanders on the ground in America and Canada, who contended with disease, brutal weather, and scant supplies, frequently having to build the very roads they marched on. As in any conflict, individuals and events stand out: Sir William Johnson, a baronet and a major general of the British forces, who sometimes painted his face and dressed like a warrior when he fought beside his Indian allies; Edward Braddock's doomed march across Pennsylvania; the valiant French defense of Fort Ticonderoga; and the legendary battle for Quebec between armies led by the arisocratic French tactical genius, the marquis de Montcalm, and the gallant, if erratic, young Englishman James Wolfe-- both of whom died on the Plains of Abraham on September 13, 1759.
Book Synopsis The British Defeat of the French in Pennsylvania, 1758 by : Douglas R. Cubbison
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.
Book Synopsis The Indian Chiefs of Pennsylvania, Or, A Story of the Part Played by the American Indian in the History of Pennsylvania by : Chester Hale Sipe
Download or read book The Indian Chiefs of Pennsylvania, Or, A Story of the Part Played by the American Indian in the History of Pennsylvania written by Chester Hale Sipe and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Division of Archives and Manuscripts Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (768 download)
Book Synopsis The French and Indian War, 1754-1763 by : Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Division of Archives and Manuscripts
Download or read book The French and Indian War, 1754-1763 written by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Division of Archives and Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
