Author: Louis-Thomas Jacau Fiedmont (sieur de)Publisher:
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Languages : en
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The Siege of Beausejour in 1755, a Journal of the Attack on Beausejour... Translated by Alice Webster,...
Author: Louis-Thomas Jacau Fiedmont (sieur de)Publisher:
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Languages : en
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The Siege of Beauséjour in 1755
Author: Jacau de FiedmontPublisher: Saint John, N.B. : New Brunswick Museum
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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The First Global War
Author: William NesterPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313003076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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By 1756 the wilderness war for control of North America that erupted two years earlier between France and England had expanded into a global struggle among all of Europe's Great Powers. Its land and sea battles raged across the North American continent, engulfed Europe and India, and stretched from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, Indian, and Pacific waters. The new conflict, now commonly known as the Seven Years' War of 1756-1763, was a direct continuation of the last French and Indian War. This study explores the North American campaigns in relation to events elsewhere in the world, from the ministries of Whitehall and Versailles to the land and sea battles in Europe, Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean. Few wars have had a more decisive effect on international relations and national development. The French and Indian War resulted in France's expulsion from almost all of the Western Hemisphere, except for some tiny islands in the Caribbean and St. Lawrence. Britain emerged as the world's dominant sea power and would remain so for two centuries. Finally, within a generation or two the vast debts incurred by Whitehall and Versailles in waging this war would help to stimulate revolutions in America and France that would forever change world history.
The Great Frontier War
Author: William NesterPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313002835
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
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.
A Bibliography of Canadiana
Author: Toronto Public LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Author: Publisher:
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas
Author: New York Public Library. Reference DepartmentPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
Historical Studies
Author: New Brunswick MuseumDictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas
Author: New York Public Library. Reference DeptPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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