The Seven Years' War in North America a brief history with documents /

Main Author: Shannon, Timothy J. 1964-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Boston, MA : Bedford/St. Martin's [2014]
Physical Description: xiv, 178 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Series: Bedford series in history and culture.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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)..