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The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-clouds Gather Inm the West 1763-1766
Author: The Triumphant Empire
Author: Lawrence Henry GipsonPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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The Triumphant Empire
Author: Lawrence Henry GipsonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 414
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The British Empire Before the American Revolution
Author: Lawrence Henry GipsonThunder-clouds Gather in the West
Author: Lawrence Henry GipsonPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The British Empire Before the American Revolution
Author: Lawrence Henry GipsonPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
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The British Empire Before the American Revolution: The triumphant empire: Thunderclouds gather in the west, 1763-1766
Author: Lawrence Henry GipsonPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Crucible of War
Author: Fred AndersonPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307425398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 902
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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.
The triumphant empire: pt.1. The empire beyond the storm, 1770-1776. pt.2. A summary of the series pt.3. Historiography
Author: Lawrence Henry GipsonPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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The Great Frontier War
Author: William NesterPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313002835
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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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.