CHIDSEY : The French and Indian War (fülszöveg)
A continent was the prize! No less. And everyone fought as if they knew it. The French and Indian War was the first major conflict in the New World—and it was a bloody and long-drawn-out war, marked by full-blown sieges, innumerable guerrilla actions, and massacres. It also prepared many Americans for a later war: for here a little-known colonel named George Washington and a host of other subsequent heroes of the American Revolution gained invaluable experience.
With his incomparable eye for memorable characterization and on-the-scene detail, Donald Barr Chidsey shows us the leaders in this war—Amherst, Braddock, Abercromby, Wolfe, Montcalm, and many others—in glory, defeat, and, for some, death; and he shows us their hot engagements at Fort William Henry, Ticonderoga, Fort Oswego, Louisbourg, and finally at Quebec.
Since The Last of the Mohicans, the French and Indian War has captured the imagination of millions of Americans—for it was filled with special drama and intensity as two major European powers, the indigenous Indians (with their own fierce brand of warfare), and the colonists fought a new kind of war...for a continent. Now we finally have a first-rate popular history that vividly clarifies and re-creates the causes and the campaigns, the politics and the personalities of this momentous war.
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