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 |
| Published: |
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: |
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)..