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Chronicles of Border Warfare: the Colonial & Indian Wars of the Early American Frontier 1742-1795
Conflict on the early American Frontier

This is the fascinating and bloody story of the American frontier of the eighteenth century-where white man clashed with red man in the Eastern Woodlands and on the banks of the great Ohio River. This history begins in the time when the British and French vied for the trackless wilderness to create a New World Empire. It takes the reader through the French and Indian War and chronicles battles, depredations and the suffering of early settlers. We join the Zanes and other notable characters along the Ohio. Here is the war of 1774, Boone's settlement and struggles in Kentucky and Lord Dunmore's War. As the American War of Independence erupts the British elicit the aid of savage Indian allies against the young America and the border once more is aflame with warfare and massacre. Peace with the British brings no respite and the bloody conflict continues between the settlers and native Americans to its bitter conclusion. This is an engrossing but gruelling account-filled with detail and incident-of savagery, tenacity and endurance as people struggle to build or keep a place for themselves in the world. An essential piece of research on the subject.
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Chronicles of Border Warfare: the Colonial & Indian Wars of the Early American Frontier 1742-1795
Conflict on the early American Frontier

This is the fascinating and bloody story of the American frontier of the eighteenth century-where white man clashed with red man in the Eastern Woodlands and on the banks of the great Ohio River. This history begins in the time when the British and French vied for the trackless wilderness to create a New World Empire. It takes the reader through the French and Indian War and chronicles battles, depredations and the suffering of early settlers. We join the Zanes and other notable characters along the Ohio. Here is the war of 1774, Boone's settlement and struggles in Kentucky and Lord Dunmore's War. As the American War of Independence erupts the British elicit the aid of savage Indian allies against the young America and the border once more is aflame with warfare and massacre. Peace with the British brings no respite and the bloody conflict continues between the settlers and native Americans to its bitter conclusion. This is an engrossing but gruelling account-filled with detail and incident-of savagery, tenacity and endurance as people struggle to build or keep a place for themselves in the world. An essential piece of research on the subject.
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Chronicles of Border Warfare: the Colonial & Indian Wars of the Early American Frontier 1742-1795

Chronicles of Border Warfare: the Colonial & Indian Wars of the Early American Frontier 1742-1795

by Alexander Scott Withers
Chronicles of Border Warfare: the Colonial & Indian Wars of the Early American Frontier 1742-1795

Chronicles of Border Warfare: the Colonial & Indian Wars of the Early American Frontier 1742-1795

by Alexander Scott Withers

Overview

Conflict on the early American Frontier

This is the fascinating and bloody story of the American frontier of the eighteenth century-where white man clashed with red man in the Eastern Woodlands and on the banks of the great Ohio River. This history begins in the time when the British and French vied for the trackless wilderness to create a New World Empire. It takes the reader through the French and Indian War and chronicles battles, depredations and the suffering of early settlers. We join the Zanes and other notable characters along the Ohio. Here is the war of 1774, Boone's settlement and struggles in Kentucky and Lord Dunmore's War. As the American War of Independence erupts the British elicit the aid of savage Indian allies against the young America and the border once more is aflame with warfare and massacre. Peace with the British brings no respite and the bloody conflict continues between the settlers and native Americans to its bitter conclusion. This is an engrossing but gruelling account-filled with detail and incident-of savagery, tenacity and endurance as people struggle to build or keep a place for themselves in the world. An essential piece of research on the subject.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781846779657
Publisher: Leonaur Ltd
Publication date: 01/15/2010
Pages: 324
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.73(d)

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U'kstehx District Of Virginia, to wit: Be it remembered, That on the twenty-sixth day of January, in the Fifty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Joseph Israel, of the said District, hath deposited in this Office, the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, To wit: "Chronicles of Border Warfare, or a history of the settlement, by the whites, of North-Western Virginia: and of the Indian wars and massacres, in that section of the State; with reflections, anecdotes, 4c.—By Alexander S. Withers, 1831," in conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned; and also to an act, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during tho times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of Designing, Engraving and Etching historical and other prints." JASPER YEATES DODDRIDGE, Clerk of the Western District of Virginia. (xiv) ADVERTISEMENT. The " Chronicles of Border Warfare" are now completed and presented to the public. Circumstauces, over which the publisher had no control, have operated to delay their appearance beyond the anticipated period; and an apprehension that such might be the case, induced him, when issuing proposals for their publication, not positively to name a time at which the work would be completed and ready for delivery. This delay, although unavoidable, has been the sourceof regret to the publisher, and has added considerably to the expenditure otherwise necessarily m...

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