The Seven Years' War in North America a brief history with documents /
| Main Author: | Shannon, Timothy J. 1964- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston, MA :
Bedford/St. Martin's
[2014]
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| Physical Description: |
xiv, 178 pages : map ; 21 cm. |
| Series: |
Bedford series in history and culture.
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| Subjects: |
| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. What's in a name? -- French and British Empires in North America -- Native American Confederacies -- Origins of the Seven Years' War -- French ascendant, 1756-1757 -- British ascendant, 1758-1760 -- Uncertain victory, 1761-1763 -- Legacies of the Seven Years War in North America -- Onontio in the Ohio Country, 1749 / Pierre-Joseph Céleron -- A French colonial official sizes up the British, 1751 / Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière -- A British colonial official sizes up the French, 1754 / Archibald Kennedy -- Tensions between Squatters and Indians, 1750 / Richard Peters -- Fur trade turns violent, 1752 / William Trent -- An Anglican minister warns of the French Catholic peril in North America, 1755 / Philip Reading -- Encounter with the French, 1753 / George Washington -- Skirmish at Jumonville's Glen, May 1754 / George Washington -- Surrender at Fort Necessity, July 1754 / Maryland Gazette -- Disaster on the Monongahela, July 1755 / British Officer -- A Delaware chief explains why the Indians went to war, 1755 / Shingas -- Siegecraft at Fort Niagara, 1759 / Pierre Pouchot -- Delaware Indians explain how they fight, 1758 / Christian Frederick Post -- Raid on Kittanning, 1756 / Pennsylvania Gazette -- A woman's perspective on Army life, 1755-1756 / Charlotte Brown -- A New England soldier at Ticonderoga, 1758 / Davie Perry -- An American Ranger sets down his rules of war, 1766 / Robert Rogers -- Two captives from Penn's Creek, 1755-1756 / Marie Le Roy and Barbara Leininger -- A captive's adoption into a Seneca family, 1758 / Mary Jemison -- Turning a captive into an Indian, 1755 / James Smith -- Redeeming captives in the Ohio Country, 1764 / William Smith -- French negotiations with Indians from the Pays d'en Haut, 1756 / Louis-Antoine de Bougainville -- A missionary conducts diplomacy in the Ohio Country, 1758 / Christian Frederick Post -- A Virginia military officer serves as a diplomat and hostage among the Cherokees, 1761 / Henry Timberlake -- British diplomat extends the covenant chain westward, 1761 / William Johnson -- A French view of the Fort William Henry Massacre, 1757 / Pierre Roubaud -- An American novelist describes the Fort William Henry Massacre, 1826 / James Fenimore Cooper -- Two British officers discuss using smallpox as a weapon, 1763 / Henry Bouquet and Jeffery Amherst -- An anti-Paxton boys defend pamphlet, 1764 / Benjamin Franklin -- Paxton boys defend their actions, 1764 / Matthew Smith and James Gibson -- Bishop of Quebec describes the suffering of the city, 1759 / Henri-Marie Dubreil de Pontbriand -- A New England minister gives thanks for the fall of Quebec, 1759 / Jonathan Mayhew -- An argument for returning Canada to the French, 1760 -- An argument against restoring Canada to the French, 1760 / Benjamin Franklin -- A Delaware prophet's vision for renewing Indian power, 1763 / Neolin -- A chronology of events related to the Seven Years' War in North America (1748-1763).. |
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| Physical Description: |
xiv, 178 pages : map ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780312445782 0312445784 |