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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (971 download)
Download or read book Virginia Frontier During the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars written by and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chester Raymond Young
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Effects of the French and Indian War on Civilian Life in the Frontier Counties of Virginia, 1754-1763 written by Chester Raymond Young and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reformatted and Index added by Wesley E. Pippenger on behalf of the Virginia Genealogical Society.
Author : William R. Nester
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811700771
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Frontier War for American Independence written by William R. Nester and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vicious war on the frontier significantly altered the course of the Revolution. Regular troops, volunteers, and Indians clashed in large-scale campaigns. Bloody fights for land, home, and family. Although the American Revolution is commonly associated with specific locations such as the heights above Boston or the frozen Delaware River, important events took place in the wooded, mountainous lands of the frontier.
Author : William Nester
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313002835
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Great Frontier War written by William Nester and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-02-28 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century and a half, from 1607 to 1763, Britain and France struggled to master the eastern half of North America. They fought five blood-soaked wars and continuously provoked various Indian tribes to raise arms against each other's subjects for the mastery of the land. The last French and Indian War, from 1754 to 1760, would dwarf all previous conflicts in the number of troops, expense, geographical expanse, and total casualties. Placing the French and Indian War in a broad historical context, this study examines the struggle for North America during the two preceding centuries and includes not only the conflict between France and Britain, but also the parts played by various Indian tribes and the other European powers. The last French and Indian War makes for colorful reading with its array of inept and daring commanders, epic heroism among the troops, far-flung battles and sieges, and creaking fleets of warships. Ironically, America's most famous founder, George Washington, helped to spark the war, first by trudging through the wilderness in the dead of winter with a message from Virginia Governor Dinwiddie to the French to abandon their forts in the upper Ohio River valley, then a half year later by ordering the war's first shots when his troops ambushed Captain Jumonville, and finally when he ignominiously surrendered his force at Fort Necessity and unwittingly signed a surrender document in French naming himself Jumonville's assassin. Topical chapters discuss the economic, political, social, and military attributes of the participants, and narrative chapters examine the campaigns of the war's first two years.
Author : Norman L. Baker
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ISBN 13 : 9780923198121
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (981 download)
Download or read book French & Indian War in Frederick County, Virginia written by Norman L. Baker and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Washington
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742533721
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (337 download)
Download or read book George Washington Remembers written by George Washington and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "George Washington Remembers makes this very personal and little-known document available for the first time and offers a glimpse of Washington in a self-reflective mood - a side of the man seldom seen in his other writings.
Author : C.H. Sipe
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5871748481
Total Pages : 827 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (717 download)
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.
Author : Otis K. Rice
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813194997
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Allegheny Frontier written by Otis K. Rice and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Allegheny frontier, comprising the mountainous area of present-day West Virginia and bordering states, is studied here in a broad context of frontier history and national development. The region was significant in the great American westward movement, but Otis K. Rice seeks also to call attention to the impact of the frontier experience upon the later history of the Allegheny Highlands. He sees a relationship between its prolonged frontier experience and the problems of Appalachia in the twentieth century. Through an intensive study of the social, economic, and political developments in pioneer West Virginia, Rice shows that during the period 1730–1830 some of the most significant features of West Virginia life and thought were established. There also appeared evidences of arrested development, which contrasted sharply with the expansiveness, ebullience, and optimism commonly associated with the American frontier. In this period customs, manners, and folkways associated with the conquest of the wilderness to root and became characteristic of the mountainous region well into the twentieth century. During this pioneer period, problems also took root that continue to be associated with the region, such as poverty, poor infrastructure, lack of economic development, and problematic education. Since the West Virginia frontier played an important role in the westward thrust of migration through the Alleghenies, Rice also provides some account of the role of West Virginia in the French and Indian War, eighteenth-century land speculations, the Revolutionary War, and national events after the establishment of the federal government in 1789.
Author : Colin Gordon Calloway
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190652160
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Indian World of George Washington written by Colin Gordon Calloway and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian World of George Washington offers a fresh portrait of the most revered American and the Native Americans whose story has been only partially told.
Author : Norman Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781537555799
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (557 download)
Download or read book French and Indian War written by Norman Baker and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains a comprehensive listing, identification, and locating of the French and Indian War forts of the northwestern frontier.
Author : David Lee Preston
Publisher : Pivotal Moments in American Hi
ISBN 13 : 0199845328
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
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.
Author : Lawrence E. Babits
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813048583
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of French and Indian War Frontier Forts written by Lawrence E. Babits and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fort Ticonderoga, the allegedly impenetrable star fort at the southern end of Lake Champlain, is famous for its role in the French and Indian War. But many other one-of-a-kind forts were instrumental in staking out the early American colonial frontier. On the 250th anniversary of this often-overlooked conflict, this volume musters an impressive range of scholars who tackle the lesser-known but nonetheless historically significant sites from barracks to bastions. Civilian, provincial, or imperial, the fortifications covered in this book range from South Carolina's Fort Prince George to Fort Frontenac in Ontario and to Fort de Chartres in Illinois. These forts were built during the first serious arms race on the continent, as Europeans and colonists struggled to control the lucrative fur trade routes of the northern boundary. The contributors to this volume reveal how the French and British adapted their fortification techniques to the special needs of the North American frontier. By exploring the unique structures that guarded the borderlands, this book reveals much about the underlying economies and dynamics of the broader conflict that defined a critical period of the American experience.
Author : Michael Cecere
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ISBN 13 : 9780788455940
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (559 download)
Download or read book A Universal Appearance of War written by Michael Cecere and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The troops in town are in high spirits, and wish for [another] attack in this quarter; they are all excellent marksmen, and fine, bold fellows... Lord Dunmore may now see he has not cowards to deal with!" Pinkney's Virginia Gazette 26 October, 1775 This bold statement, written in response to the outbreak of warfare in Virginia in late October 1775, conveyed both a sense of confidence, and a sense of relief, that Virginians had finally stood firm against the forces of the Royal Governor, Lord Dunmore. Six months after the bloodshed of Lexington and Concord (and the inauguration of the Revolutionary War), Virginians had fired their first shots in anger and repulsed a small squadron of British ships bent on burning the town of Hampton. The fighting that occurred in Hampton spread to the James River and Virginia's Southside, where engagements at Kemp's Landing and Great Bridge led to the eventual destruction of Norfolk, Virginia's largest town. Combat continued sporadically into the summer of 1776, but ended in July when Lord Dunmore was driven off Gwynn's Island and abruptly sailed for New York. Dunmore's departure ushered in four years of relative peace in Virginia (except for the settlers on the frontier). Thousands of Virginians continued to fight, but they did so on distant battlefields to the north, south, and west of Virginia. Except for an occasional British raid or frequent engagement on the frontier, Virginia was relatively unscathed by warfare. This changed in 1781 with the arrival of General Benedict Arnold, the notorious traitor and turncoat, and 1,600 British troops. Ten months of nearly continuous warfare commenced with Arnold's arrival, during which British troop levels in the state eventually surpassed 7,000. It was time for Virginia to suffer through her fair share of the war. This book chronicles the war in Virginia from start to finish (1775-81), shedding light, and recognition, on many overlooked Virginia engagements. Readers will discover that although the war started off modestly in Virginia, it concluded with a dramatic flourish that required bold action and some good fortune for the allies to succeed.
Author : Patrick Spero
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812293347
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Frontier Country written by Patrick Spero and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Frontier Country, Patrick Spero addresses one of the most important and controversial subjects in American history: the frontier. Countering the modern conception of the American frontier as an area of expansion, Spero employs the eighteenth-century meaning of the term to show how colonists understood it as a vulnerable, militarized boundary. The Pennsylvania frontier, Spero argues, was constituted through conflicts not only between colonists and Native Americans but also among neighboring British colonies. These violent encounters created what Spero describes as a distinctive "frontier society" on the eve of the American Revolution that transformed the once-peaceful colony of Pennsylvania into a "frontier country." Spero narrates Pennsylvania's story through a sequence of formative but until now largely overlooked confrontations: an eight-year-long border war between Maryland and Pennsylvania in the 1730s; the Seven Years' War and conflicts with Native Americans in the 1750s; a series of frontier rebellions in the 1760s that rocked the colony and its governing elite; and wars Pennsylvania fought with Virginia and Connecticut in the 1770s over its western and northern borders. Deploying innovative data-mining and GIS-mapping techniques to produce a series of customized maps, he illustrates the growth and shifting locations of frontiers over time. Synthesizing the tensions between high and low politics and between eastern and western regions in Pennsylvania before the Revolution, Spero recasts the importance of frontiers to the development of colonial America and the origins of American Independence.
Author : René Chartrand
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472814479
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Forts of the American Revolution 1775-83 written by René Chartrand and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though primarily fought in the field, the American Revolution saw fortifications play an important part in some of the key campaigns of the war. Field fortifications were developed around major towns including Boston, New York and Savannah, while the frontier forts at Stanwix, Niagara and Cumberland were to all be touched by the war. This book details all the types of fortification used throughout the conflict, the engineers on all sides who constructed and maintained them, and the actions fought around and over them.
Author : Wills De Hass
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western Virginia written by Wills De Hass and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fred Anderson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307425398
Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Crucible of War written by Fred Anderson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engrossing narrative of the great military conflagration of the mid-eighteenth century, Fred Anderson transports us into the maelstrom of international rivalries. With the Seven Years' War, Great Britain decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean — and in the process destroyed an American diplomatic system in which Native Americans had long played a central, balancing role — permanently changing the political and cultural landscape of North America. Anderson skillfully reveals the clash of inherited perceptions the war created when it gave thousands of American colonists their first experience of real Englishmen and introduced them to the British cultural and class system. We see colonists who assumed that they were partners in the empire encountering British officers who regarded them as subordinates and who treated them accordingly. This laid the groundwork in shared experience for a common view of the world, of the empire, and of the men who had once been their masters. Thus, Anderson shows, the war taught George Washington and other provincials profound emotional lessons, as well as giving them practical instruction in how to be soldiers. Depicting the subsequent British efforts to reform the empire and American resistance — the riots of the Stamp Act crisis and the nearly simultaneous pan-Indian insurrection called Pontiac's Rebellion — as postwar developments rather than as an anticipation of the national independence that no one knew lay ahead (or even desired), Anderson re-creates the perspectives through which contemporaries saw events unfold while they tried to preserve imperial relationships. Interweaving stories of kings and imperial officers with those of Indians, traders, and the diverse colonial peoples, Anderson brings alive a chapter of our history that was shaped as much by individual choices and actions as by social, economic, and political forces.
