A Few Acres of Snow

Chronicles the conflict between England and France in their quest for supremacy over the North American continent, by covering the War of the Grand Alliance (1689-98), the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14), the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48) and the Seven Years War (1756-1763).

Autorentext
ROBERT LECKIE is the author of over thirty books on military history, including George Washington's War: The Saga of the American Revolution, None Died in Vain: The Saga of the Civil War, and most recently, Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II.

Klappentext
With his celebrated sense of drama and eye for colorful detail, acclaimed military historian Robert Leckie charts the long, fierce conflict between England and France in their quest for supremacy in pre-Revolutionary America. Packed with profiles of all the major players -- including George Washington, Samuel de Champlain, William Pitt, Edward Braddock, Count Frontenac, James Wolfe, Thomas Gage, and the nobly vanquished Marquis de Montcalm -- this book chronicles the great colonial wars and the decisive French and Indian Wars (the Seven Years War). Leckie shows not only how the New World came to be such a fiercely contested prize in Western Civilization, but why we speak English today instead of French -- and reminds us how easily things might have gone the other way.


Zusammenfassung
"Leckie is a gifted writer with the ability to explain complicated military matters in layperson's terms, while sustaining the drama involved in a life-and-death struggle. His portraits of the key players in that struggle... are seamlessly interwoven with his exciting narrative.

Inhalt
Partial Table of Content: A CONTINENT IS DISCOVERED; Christopher Columbus.The Colonizing Contest Begins; PRELUDE TO WARS; Samuel de Champlain; War in the Wilderness; King Louis XIV of France; 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; Canada the Quarrelsome; Sir William Phips Wins and Loses; WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION, 1701-1714: (QUEEN ANNE'S WAR); Anne Succeeds William; WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION, 1740-1748: (KING GEORGE'S WAR); The "Milishy" Take Louisbourg; SEVEN YEARS' WAR, 1756-1763: (FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR); George Washington; Defeat and Death of Braddock; Washington: Patriot, Planter, Politician; Retribution; Selected Bibliography; Index.

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