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Noticed a couple of relatively new ones in Lord Nelson's today which may be of interest to JJ collectors:
Bloody Mohawk: The French and Indian
War & American Revolution on New
York’s Frontier by Richard Berleth.
This sweeping historical narrative chronicles events instrumental in the painful
birth of a new nation from the Bloody Morning Scout and the massacre at Fort William Henry to the disastrous siege of Quebec, the heroic but lopsided Battle
of Valcour Island, the horrors of Oriskany, and the tragedies of Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Valley massacre and the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition’s destruction of the Iroquois homeland in western New York State. Caught in the middle of it all was the Mohawk River Valley.
In this narrative history of the Mohawk River Valley and surrounding region from 1713to 1794, Professor Richard Berleth charts the passage of the valley from a fast-growing agrarian region streaming with colonial traffic to a war-ravaged wasteland. Berleth explores the relationship of early settlers on the Mohawk frontier to the Iroquoian people who made their homes beside the great river. He introduces colonists and native leaders in all their diversity of culture and belief. Dramatic
profiles of key participants such as Sir William Johnson, Conrad Weiser and Samuel Kirkland to name a few provide perspectives through which contemporaries struggled to understand.
Major Washington’s Pittsburgh and the
Mission to Fort Le Boeuf
by Brady J. Crytzer.
During the winter of 1753, George Washington accepted the first, and potentially most dangerous, mission of his life—he was twenty-one.
The resulting tale is one of international intrigue and heartbreaking
disappointment that set the stage for the
French and Indian War and forever changed
Washington’s destiny. The untried major
faced a daunting task and was twice nearly
killed, fi rst by a treacherous guide and later as
he tried to cross the icy Allegheny River.
Using fi rsthand accounts, including the journals
of George Washington himself, historian
Brady Crytzer reconstructs the complex world
of eighteenth-century Pittsburgh, the native
peoples who inhabited it and the empires
desperate to control it. Through trial and
triumph, a man was defined, and a legend was
born.
Bloody Mohawk: The French and Indian
War & American Revolution on New
York’s Frontier by Richard Berleth.
This sweeping historical narrative chronicles events instrumental in the painful
birth of a new nation from the Bloody Morning Scout and the massacre at Fort William Henry to the disastrous siege of Quebec, the heroic but lopsided Battle
of Valcour Island, the horrors of Oriskany, and the tragedies of Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Valley massacre and the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition’s destruction of the Iroquois homeland in western New York State. Caught in the middle of it all was the Mohawk River Valley.
In this narrative history of the Mohawk River Valley and surrounding region from 1713to 1794, Professor Richard Berleth charts the passage of the valley from a fast-growing agrarian region streaming with colonial traffic to a war-ravaged wasteland. Berleth explores the relationship of early settlers on the Mohawk frontier to the Iroquoian people who made their homes beside the great river. He introduces colonists and native leaders in all their diversity of culture and belief. Dramatic
profiles of key participants such as Sir William Johnson, Conrad Weiser and Samuel Kirkland to name a few provide perspectives through which contemporaries struggled to understand.
Major Washington’s Pittsburgh and the
Mission to Fort Le Boeuf
by Brady J. Crytzer.
During the winter of 1753, George Washington accepted the first, and potentially most dangerous, mission of his life—he was twenty-one.
The resulting tale is one of international intrigue and heartbreaking
disappointment that set the stage for the
French and Indian War and forever changed
Washington’s destiny. The untried major
faced a daunting task and was twice nearly
killed, fi rst by a treacherous guide and later as
he tried to cross the icy Allegheny River.
Using fi rsthand accounts, including the journals
of George Washington himself, historian
Brady Crytzer reconstructs the complex world
of eighteenth-century Pittsburgh, the native
peoples who inhabited it and the empires
desperate to control it. Through trial and
triumph, a man was defined, and a legend was
born.