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Struggle for a Continent: The French and Indian Wars, 1690-1760
Struggle for a Continent The French and Indian Wars 16901760 Author:Albert Marrin For over seventy years, France and Great Britain wrestled for control of North America, pitting the inhabitants of the new world against one another. Three peoples, the Native American "Indians," French colonists, and British colonists, each with their different wants, needs, and customs, clashed repeatedly until their hatreds exploded... more » in the French and Indian Wars. Colonists allied with Redcoats, Frenchmen fought side by side with Indians, and Britain and France each used the Native Americans for their own ends during years of the most horrifyingly cruel warfare ever waged on the North American continent.
In this exciting retelling of history, Albert Marrin takes the reader from the terrifying midnight raid at Schenectady to Pontiac's final bloody siege at Detroit. With the final battle of the war on the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec, Canada -- where both the British and the French generals were killed--the British gained control of the continent.
Here, too, we meet those who would become heroes of the American Revolution, including Benjamin Franklin and a young surveyor named George Washington, testing his courage against the French in the Ohio River Valley.
Filled with rich and gripping detail, Struggle for a Continent brings each stage of the wars into sharp focus, vividly recreating the years of ruthless fighting that paved the way for another conflict that began in 1776 -- the American Revolution.« less