The Birth of America- From Before Columbus to the Revolution
claimed that they were fighting a “just war” against the recalcitrant or rebel- lious, and that they were therefore right to ens ...
the chief spirits because you use iron,” the French were told by a leading Indian. “It is for you to rule and protect all men. P ...
Those Indians who were not considered candidates for absorption were usually killed. That was the second purpose of mourning war ...
metalworkers. When New Netherland was taken over by the English and became New York in 1664, the earlier relationship expanded i ...
produce unanimity, the disgruntled faction carried on with its own policy; to avoid this potentially dangerous outcome, every ef ...
Old Testament, they often branded Indian captives and sold these captives into slavery. Before Indians could decide how to react ...
PART III Breakdown of the Imperial System ...
...
chapter 12 The French and Indian War T he Seven Years’ War (1756–1763), with operations stretch- ing from Canada across Europe t ...
organized for the sort of landscape Europe had developed after centuries of farming. What generals did was to align troops in ri ...
armed, were mowed down in an Indian-style ambush for which their European training had not prepared them. Of his 1,100 soldiers, ...
They see in the tracks the number that have passed, whether they are Indians or Europeans, if the tracks are fresh or old, they ...
British officers of junior rank and that those of equal rank were paid less. Forthwith, he resigned his militia commission. Virg ...
A policy of destroying the Indians pleased the colonists, but they would have been delighted as well to see the British army mau ...
down dead in their own dirt and desert by battalions, officers and all.” Another British officer, General James Murray, thought ...
nificant casualties had blighted his career. “Avoiding loss” was the funda- mental definition of success. Success in operations ...
The British found this seafaring tradition useful; with British sanction, American privateers took part in the British attacks o ...
tile, made one last, dramatic, but catastrophic effort to shake themselves free. That great upheaval is known as Pontiac’s Rebel ...
chapter 13 From International War to Colonial War A llowing the Indians somewhere to live seemed to the British government merel ...
Underlying the proclamation were new attitudes on the part of the British and Americans toward one another. By 1763, the British ...
«
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
»
Free download pdf