Raiders From New France

Author : René Chartrand
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472833708
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raiders from New France written by René Chartrand and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the French and British colonies in North America began on a 'level playing field', French political conservatism and limited investment allowed the British colonies to forge ahead, pushing into territories that the French had explored deeply but failed to exploit. The subsequent survival of 'New France' can largely be attributed to an intelligent doctrine of raiding warfare developed by imaginative French officers through close contact with Indian tribes and Canadian settlers. The ground-breaking new research explored in this study indicates that, far from the ad hoc opportunism these raids seemed to represent, they were in fact the result of a deliberate plan to overcome numerical weakness by exploiting the potential of mixed parties of French soldiers, Canadian backwoodsmen and allied Indian warriors. Supported by contemporary accounts from period documents and newly explored historical records, this study explores the 'hit-and-run' raids which kept New Englanders tied to a defensive position and ensured the continued existence of the French colonies until their eventual cession in 1763.

Author : René Chartrand
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472833503
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raiders from New France written by René Chartrand and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supported by full-color illustrations, this study explores in startling new detail the “musket and tomahawk” forest warfare by which the French colonists and their allies battled to ensure the survival of “New France.” Though the French and British colonies in North America began on a “level playing field," French political conservatism and limited investment allowed the British colonies to forge ahead, pushing into territories that the French had explored deeply but failed to exploit. The subsequent survival of “New France” can largely be attributed to an intelligent doctrine of raiding warfare developed by imaginative French officers through close contact with indigenous tribes and Canadian settlers. The groundbreaking new research explored in this study indicates that, far from the opportunism these raids seemed to represent, they were in fact the result of a deliberate plan to overcome numerical weakness by exploiting the potential of mixed parties of French soldiers, Canadian backwoodsmen, and allied indigenous warriors. Supported by contemporary accounts from period documents and newly explored historical records, this study explores the “hit-and-run” raids which kept New Englanders tied to a defensive position and ensured the continued existence of the French colonies until their eventual cession in 1763.

Author : George McKinnon Wrong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of New France written by George McKinnon Wrong and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811769712
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ranger Raid written by Phillip Thomas Tucker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A figure of legendary, almost mythic proportions, Robert Rogers is widely considered the father of U.S. Army Rangers. He gained his fame during the French and Indian War, fighting in the American and Canadian wilderness for the British colonies and the English Empire against the French and Indians, but a decade later, during the Revolution, he was almost a man without a country. During the American Revolution, George Washington didn’t trust him—indeed, he had Rogers arrested in 1776—nor did the British, who, desperate, gave him a command anyway, and Rogers was pivotal in arresting and executing American spy Nathan Hale. However, Rogers' saga begins in the French and Indian War in what was a true American Odyssey. Ranger Raid digs deep into Rogers’ most controversial battle: the raid on St. Francis in Canada during the French and Indian War. On October 4, 1759, Rogers and 140 Rangers raided the Native American town of St. Francis, Canada, as part of British general Jeffery Amherst’s plan to gain intelligence in the St. Lawrence region. At the time, and for many decades thereafter, this was seen as a great victory—but now it seems like more of a massacre. Phillip Thomas Tucker refreshes this story, combining the biography of Robert Rogers, the history of his Rangers, and the history of the native peoples in this region, to tell a new story of the St. Francis raid and its influence in the French and Indian War, the Revolutionary War, and ever after.

Author : Charles O. Goulet
Publisher : Chronicler Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780978042837
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Raiders written by Charles O. Goulet and published by Chronicler Pub. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Raiders is the continuing saga of the Marin Family in New France in the 18th century as they struggle to survive while France and England fight for supremacy on the North American continent.

Author : Reuben Gold Thwaites
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book France in America, 1497-1763 written by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Albert Bushnell Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Nation: Thwaites, R. G. France in America, 1497-1763 written by Albert Bushnell Hart and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Albert Bushnell Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Nation, a History: Thwaites, R. G. France in America, 1497-1763 written by Albert Bushnell Hart and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Albert Bushnell Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Nation: France in America, 1497-1763 written by Albert Bushnell Hart and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alfred A. Cave
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313052840
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French and Indian War written by Alfred A. Cave and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-02-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French and Indian War was but the American front of a much larger war taking place in Europe, the outcome of which had significant consequences for both North America and the world. As the frontier sideshow of the Seven Years' War, being fought between the powerful English and French empires in the 1760s, the French and Indian War brought northern America firmly under the control of Great Britain, and removed the vital French counter-weight used by native American Indian tribes to block the westward encroachment of land-hungry English settlers. An excellent introduction to the study of this pivotal war, The French and Indian War begins with a detailed timeline that provides both local and global contexts and a narrative chapter providing a bird's-eye view of the war's unfolding. Also included are chapters detailing the complex and fascinating interactions of Native Americans, French settlers, British colonials, and imperial officials. The work concludes with a chapter delving into the long-term local and global consequences of the war. Primary documents, biographical sketches of major figures, an annotated bibliography, and a thorough index round out this user-friendly, to-the-point reference guide to one of the least understood conflicts in American history.