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Pub. Date
[2006]
Formats
Description
The French and Indian War pitted French forces for almost a decade against the British, yet few Americans realize its historic contribution to the revolutionary fervor which swept the continent in 1776. The critical and sophisticated role of Native Americans in this conflict is highlighted. Includes dramatizations.
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Often hailed as the godfather of today's elite special forces, Robert Rogers trained and led an unorthodox unit of green provincials, raw woodsmen, farmers, and Indian scouts on "impossible" missions in colonial America that are still the stuff of soldiers' legend. The child of marginalized Scots-Irish immigrants, Rogers learned to survive in New England's dark and deadly forests, grasping, as did few others, that a new world required new forms of...
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman's daughter, thirteen-year-old Zettie records the events of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the New World where they are inadvertently drawn into the hostilities of the ongoing French and Indian War and, eventually, find a new direction to their lives.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1967
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
While guiding a small party of English settlers to the protection of a fort during the French and Indian War, Hawkeye, a frontier scout, and his two Mohican friends struggle against an evil Indian scout who is really the chief of an enemy tribe.
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
"In his new novel of the French and Indian War, this master storyteller takes us back to a time when America's vast riches were up for grabs, and British forces, led by General Edward Braddock, joined by the American colonial militias, and the French aided by their Indian allies, were locked in battle over the great territories of the Ohio valley."--BOOK JACKET. "From 1754 through 1759, the fighting was almost constant, and sometimes hopeless, as...
49) Renno
Author
Pub. Date
1981
Description
Renno, an Iroquois Sachem, struggles to save his family and preserve the traditional culture and lifestyles of his people despite the onslaught of white settlers and war between the French and English
55) The deerslayer
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Natty Bumppo, a young white hunter brought up in the Delaware Indian tribe, has to defend settlers before returning to the Iroquois who have allowed him parole.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Description
A fascinating profile of two generals who shaped history. In 1759, after the battle on the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec City, the English general James Wolfe and the French general, Louis-Joseph Montcalm lay mortally wounded, each hit by a sniper's bullet. Neither could know that the outcome on the Plains of Abraham would shape the history of both the United States and Canada. After researching letters and journals and reading dozens of books,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Crocker tells the riveting story of one of the most important events in colonial America. Braddock's expedition had a profound impact on American political and military developments, laid the foundation for the road for westward expansion, and sowed the seeds of dissent between England and colonies.
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