Originally published: 1999. Bibliography: p.369-371. Includes index.
Contents:
Continent is discovered: Christopher Columbus -- Land! Land! -- Colonizing contest begins -- Prelude to wars: Samuel de Champlain -- War in the wilderness -- Champlain founds New France -- King Louis XIV of France -- Kingdoms and their colonies -- Iroquois revenge and King Philip's War -- War of the Grand Alliance, 1688-1697 (King William's War): Count Frontenac -- Frontenac and the fur trade -- James II, King: William III, usurper -- Martyrs of New France -- Canada the quarrelsome -- Sun King and the War of the Grand Alliance -- Frontenac returns renews border war -- Heroines of both frontiers -- Sir William Phips wins and loses -- War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1714 (Queen Anne's War): Anne succeeds William -- Borders aflame again Quebec debacle -- War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-1748 (King George's War): "Milishy" take Louisbourg -- George II British colonies explode -- Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 (French and Indian War): George Washington -- Defeat and death of Braddock -- Acadian agony, western slaughter -- Pitt takes charge, Montcalm arrives, Lord Howe killed -- Washington: patriot, planter, politician -- "Clip and cut, and rob the King" -- Quebec I: before the battle -- Quebec II: the battle and betrayal -- Retribution.
Summary:
Provides perspective on exactly how the New World came to be such a fiercely contested prize in Western Civilization, charts the long, savage conflict between England and France in their quest for supremacy in pre-Revolutionary America. Also shows us exactly why we speak English today instead of French, and reminds us how easily things might have gone the other way.
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