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| Cover of my copy. General Edward Braddock's doomed British Army marches into the Pennsylvania wilderness in the summer of 1775. |
I picked up this book (The Colonial Wars: Clashes in the Wilderness by Alden R. Carter) for children and young adults at a used book sale yesterday and started to read it immediately (and finished it the next day-today). It attracted me due to its brevity (64 pages) and a fine collection of illustrations and maps in color.
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| This is the original print of the colored version on the book's cover (see above). Braddock's March, drawn by A.B. Frost and engraved by H.B. Hall, Jr. From: United States History, by William Cullen Bryant (1881). |
The book largely covers the wars in North America prior to the American Revolution. This period is roughly 1688-1760 into the French and Indian War. In my opinion, this is an era of American History that has been neglected in current times and overshadowed by the American Revolution.
My interest in this era was rekindled by my visit in 2014 to Fort Stanwix in Rome, NY and the book and documentary film series that I studied afterwards. A return trip to Rome for work at the end of August piqued my interest in the history so that I was compelled to purchase this little book.
There is no summary of the book except a brief statement on the copyright page (1992): Chronicles the history of the Colonial Wars, also called the French and Indian Wars, which gave the British control of North America.
The book covers:
- King William's War (1689-1697):
- Queen Anne's War (1702-1713);
- King George's War (1744-1748)
- French and Indian War (1755-1763)
I will probably read it a few more times since it is so brief. I am going to add an adult version of the history (The Colonial Wars by Howard Peckham, 1964) to my used books list for future reading.
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Links:
http://www.aldencarter.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Indian_Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Indian_War
http://ricketwrite.blogspot.com/2014/04/good-friday-in-rome.html
http://ricketwrite.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-war-that-made-america.html
http://ricketwrite.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-end-of-war.html
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Written Saturday 21 September 2019.
