Braddock's Defeat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Braddock's Defeat write by David Lee Preston. This book was released on 2015. Braddock's Defeat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On July 9, 1755, British and colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock suffered a crushing defeat to French and Native American enemy forces in Ohio Country. Known as the Battle of the Monongahela, the loss altered the trajectory of the Seven Years' War in America, escalating the fighting and shifting the balance of power. An unprecedented rout of a modern and powerful British army by a predominantly Indian force, Monongahela shocked the colonial world--and also planted the first seeds of an independent American consciousness. The culmination of a failed attempt to capture Fort Duquesne from the French, Braddock's Defeat was a pivotal moment in American and world history. While the defeat is often blamed on blundering and arrogance on the part of General Braddock--who was wounded in battle and died the next day--David Preston's gripping new work argues that such a claim diminishes the victory that Indian and French forces won by their superior discipline and leadership. In fact, the French Canadian officer Captain Beaujeu had greater tactical skill, reconnaissance, and execution, and his Indian allies were the most effective and disciplined troops on the field. Preston also explores the long shadow cast by Braddock's Defeat over the 18th century and the American Revolution two decades later. The campaign had been an awakening to empire for many British Americans, spawning ideas of American identity and anticipating many of the political and social divisions that would erupt with the outbreak of the Revolution. Braddock's Defeat was the defining generational experience for many British and American officers, including Thomas Gage, Horatio Gates, and perhaps most significantly, George Washington. A rich battle history driven by a gripping narrative and an abundance of new evidence,Braddock's Defeat presents the fullest account yet of this defining moment in early American history.
Crucible of War
Crucible of War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crucible of War write by Fred Anderson. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Crucible of War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
New Light on Washington's Fort Necessity
New Light on Washington's Fort Necessity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Light on Washington's Fort Necessity write by Jean Carl Harrington. This book was released on 1957. New Light on Washington's Fort Necessity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Fort Necessity National Battlefield Site, Pennsylvania
Fort Necessity National Battlefield Site, Pennsylvania - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fort Necessity National Battlefield Site, Pennsylvania write by Frederick Tilberg. This book was released on 1954. Fort Necessity National Battlefield Site, Pennsylvania available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Journal of Major George Washington
The Journal of Major George Washington - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Journal of Major George Washington write by George Washington. This book was released on 1963. The Journal of Major George Washington available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An account of his first official mission, made as emissary from the Governor of Virginia to the commandant of the French forces on the Ohio, October, 1753-January, 1754.
