WALTER R. BORNEMAN

THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR

Deciding the Fate of North America

HarperCollins, 2006, 368 pages

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What Samuel Eliot Morison called “the First World War” decided the future of North America among British, French, Spanish, and Native American interests and sowed the seeds of discord that led to the American Revolution.

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“This is narrative history at its best.” — Thomas Fleming

“Borneman is a vigorous, passionate historian…” — Providence Journal

Winner of the 2008 New York

Society of Colonial Wars Distinguished Book Award

Fought from Nova Scotia to the forks of the Ohio River, the French and Indian War is best remembered for frontier campaigns to capture strategic linchpins at Forts Ticonderoga, Duquesne, and Niagara; legendary treks by Rogers' Rangers; and the momentous battle of Quebec.

Here are the stories of Jeffery Amherst, the loyal soldier who did his king's bidding at expense of home and family; Montcalm, Canada's champion who fought his governor as well as the British; and William Pitt, the man who brashly proclaimed that only he could save England. We encounter George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Edward Braddock, and Major Robert Rogers, a legend misunderstood who stands both revered and damned.

The French and Indian War presents the triumphs and tragedies of this epic struggle for a continent, placing them in the larger context of France and Great Britain's global conflict and emphasizes the seeds of discord sown in its aftermath gave root to the American Revolution.

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