White Devil A True Story of War, Savagery, and Vengeance in Colonial America

Name: White Devil A True Story of War, Savagery, and Vengeance in Colonial America
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ISBN: 9780306814730

ISBN-10: 0306814730

ISBN-13: 9780306814730

Edition: Annotated

Authors: Stephen Brumwell

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In America's first war, known as the French and Indian War, France and England--both in unholy alliance with warring Native American tribes--battled each other in a series of bloody conflicts and terrifying attacks on colonial settlements. No more brutal raid was carried out than the massacre of the settlers at Fort William Henry--an atrocity memorably depicted in James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans. Following the raid, Major Robert Rogers and his famous band of "Rangers" marched north into French territory to exact retribution, where they ruthlessly attacked a peaceful village of the Abenaki Indians, massacring its people with a frightening vengeance. After the raid, the…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication date: 3/7/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.13" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Maps


Preface



Conflict and Coexistence



Making Reputations



The Ranging Way of War



Amherst and Wolfe



Chosen Men



Search and Destroy



Retreat and Pursuit



Reward and Retribution



Endings


Notes


Appendices


Dramatis Personae


Acknowledgements


Index