Frontier Soldiers Of New France Volume 1
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Frontier Soldiers Of New France Volume 1
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Author : René Chartrand
language : en
Publisher: Helion
Release Date : 2024-08-30
Frontier Soldiers Of New France Volume 1 written by René Chartrand and has been published by Helion this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-30 with History categories.
Frontier Soldiers of New France examines the official and regulation dress, weapons and equipment of the regular colonial troops maintained by the French government in North America from 1683 to 1760, including unpublished information with a focus on new illustrations, line drawings, and photos of rare portraits and surviving artefacts from public and private collections. This volume is the first of a series of three that will present all the regular forces that served in New France from 1683, when the first permanent garrisons of royal troops arrived, to September 1760. Many North American military campaigns of that era have been, and continue to be, covered in countless history books. The purpose of this work is, however, to be the first to present in detail the organisation and especially the material culture of all military participants, be they generals or private soldiers. There have been some sections of books, usually brief, and articles devoted to organisation, armament, dress, and equipment previously published. The aim of this work is to present a complete record of these aspects. To achieve this goal, three veteran researchers have consulted primary documents preserved in archives and collections on both sides of the Atlantic during the last half century and have united their efforts to produce a wide-ranging and as accurate as possible record. The result is often intriguing and attractive, both in the regulation uniforms worn by officers and soldiers that might be seen by onlookers at frontier forts as far as the known world (to Europeans) or at fortresses such as Québec and Louisbourg. The weapons and equipment were usually somewhat distinctive. They had weapons, clothing and equipment that became specially adapted to North America's wilderness, thanks to their First Nations allies, be it in the primaeval forests crisscrossed by great rivers and lakes or at the great central plains, which will be covered in volume 2. Volume 3 will be devoted to the battalions detached from the French regular metropolitan army commanded, from 1756, by Montcalm who led an arguably heroic resistance against overwhelming British and American forces. They, too, had surprising aspects of material culture; for instance, the battalions that came in 1755 had different uniforms in Canada than their regulation dress in France. The work is illustrated with period paintings and prints, as well as museum-quality artwork by internationally acclaimed military artists lauded for accuracy combined with fine art. Indeed, some works have already graced academic publications and displays in museums and historic sites.
Colonial Wars Of North America 1512 1763 Routledge Revivals
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Author : Alan Gallay
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-06-11
Colonial Wars Of North America 1512 1763 Routledge Revivals written by Alan Gallay and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-11 with History categories.
First published in 1996, this encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference resource that pulls together a vast amount of material on a rich historical era, presenting it in a balanced way that offers hard-to-find facts and detailed information. The volume was the first encyclopedic account of the United States' colonial military experience. It features 650 essays by more than 130 historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, geographers, and other scholarly experts on a variety of topics that cover all of colonial America's diverse peoples. In addition to wars, battles, and treaties, analytical essays explore the diplomatic and military history of over 50 Native American groups, as well as Dutch, English, French, Spanish, and Swiss colonies. It's the first source to consult for the political activities of an Indian nation, the details about the disposition of forces in a battle, or the significance of a fort to its size, location, and strength. In addition to its reference capabilities, the book's detailed material has been, and will continue to be highly useful to students as a supplementary text and as a handy source for reporters and papers.
The Canadian Frontier 1534 1760
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Author : William John Eccles
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 1983
The Canadian Frontier 1534 1760 written by William John Eccles and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with History categories.
This acclaimed general history of ‘New France’ recounts the French era in Canada.
Officers And Soldiers Of The French Army 1914
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Author : Andre Jouineau
language : en
Publisher: Histoire & Collections
Release Date : 2008
Officers And Soldiers Of The French Army 1914 written by Andre Jouineau and has been published by Histoire & Collections this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Military uniforms categories.
A little vade-mecum for newcomers to discover the "smartest army in Europe" and for amateurs to have a clear, simple and detailed guide to the main uniforms worn by French troops at the outset of the war.
Californio Lancers
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Author : Tom Prezelski
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2015-08-19
Californio Lancers written by Tom Prezelski and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-19 with History categories.
More than 16,000 Californians served as soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War. One California unit, the 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry, consisted largely of Californio Hispanic volunteers from the “Cow Counties” of Southern California and the Central Coast. Out-of-work vaqueros who enlisted after drought decimated the herds they worked, the Native Cavalrymen lent the army their legendary horsemanship and carried lances that evoked both the romance of the Californios and the Spanish military tradition. Californio Lancers, the first detailed history of the 1st Battalion, illuminates their role in the conflict and brings new diversity to Civil War history. Author Tom Prezelski notes that the Californios, less than a generation removed from the U.S.-Mexican War, were ambivalent about serving in the Union Army, but poverty trumped their misgivings. Based on his extensive research in the service records of individual officers and enlisted men, Prezelski describes both the problems and the accomplishments of the 1st Battalion. Despite a desertion rate among enlisted men that exceeded 50 percent for some companies, and despite the feuds among its officers, the Native Cavalry was the face of federal authority in the region, and their presence helped retain the West for the Union during the rebellion. The battalion pursued bandits, fought an Indian insurrection in northern California, garrisoned Confederate-leaning southern California, patrolled desert trails, guarded the border, and attempted to control the Chiricahua Apaches in southern Arizona. Although some ten thousand Spanish-surnamed Americans served during the Civil War, their support of the Union is almost unknown in the popular imagination. Californio Lancers contributes to our understanding of the Civil War in the Far West and how it transformed the Mexican-American community.
Lemoyne D Iberville
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Author : Nellis M. Crouse
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2001-04-01
Lemoyne D Iberville written by Nellis M. Crouse and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-04-01 with History categories.
When Nellis M. Crouse’s Lemoyne d’Iberville was originally published in 1954, the New York Times declared that “Mr. Crouse’s study of Iberville closes a gap in North American historical biography.” Indeed, this book is the first and only full-length English-language biography of the great leader of French Louisiana, who lived from 1661 to 1706. Though scholarship in French colonial history has increased greatly since it was first released, Crouse’s work still has much to offer. He explores the Canadian origins and military career of Iberville and his campaigns at Hudson Bay, upper New York, Maine, and Nova Scotia, vividly depicting all the wrath and barbarity of seventeenth-century warfare. Crouse emphasizes the relationship between private gain and public service in Iberville’s rise through the ranks of the French navy, outlining how his quest for booty and trade steered his military actions, and stresses the importance of family networks in both the commerce and government of New France. With a new introduction by Daniel H. Usner, Jr., to set the book in historiographical perspective, this edition of Lemoyne d’Iberville provides scholars and students alike with a fresh perspective on this remarkable colonial figure.
Francis Parkman France And England In North America Vol 1 Loa 11
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Author : Francis Parkman
language : en
Publisher: Library of America
Release Date : 1983-07-04
Francis Parkman France And England In North America Vol 1 Loa 11 written by Francis Parkman and has been published by Library of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-07-04 with History categories.
This Library of America volume, along with its companion, presents, for the first time in compact form, all seven titles of Francis Parkman’s monumental account of France and England’s imperial struggle for dominance on the North American continent. Deservedly compared as a literary achievement to Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Parkman’s accomplishment is hardly less awesome than the explorations and adventures he so vividly describes. Pioneers of France in the New World (1865) begins with the early and tragic settlement of the French Huguenots in Florida, then shifts to the northern reaches of the continent and follows the expeditions of Samuel de Champlain up the St. Lawrence River and into the Great Lakes as he mapped the wilderness, organized the fur trade, promoted Christianity among the natives, and waged a savage forest campaign against the Iroquois. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century (1867) traces the zealous efforts of the Jesuits and other Roman Catholic orders to convert the Native American tribes of North America. La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West (1869) records that explorer’s voyages on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and his treks, often alone, across the vast western prairies and through the labyrinthine swamps of Louisiana. The Old Régime in Canada (1874) recounts the political struggles among the religious sects, colonial officials, feudal chiefs, royal ministers, and military commanders of Canada. Their bitter fights over the monopoly of the fur trade, the sale of brandy to the natives, the importation of wives from the orphanages and poorhouses of France, and the bizarre fanaticism of religious extremists and their “incessant supernaturalism” animate this pioneering social history of early Canada. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
The Great Frontier War
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Author : William Nester
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2000-02-28
The Great Frontier War written by William Nester and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-02-28 with History categories.
For more than a century and a half, from 1607 to 1763, Britain and France struggled to master the eastern half of North America. They fought five blood-soaked wars and continuously provoked various Indian tribes to raise arms against each other's subjects for the mastery of the land. The last French and Indian War, from 1754 to 1760, would dwarf all previous conflicts in the number of troops, expense, geographical expanse, and total casualties. Placing the French and Indian War in a broad historical context, this study examines the struggle for North America during the two preceding centuries and includes not only the conflict between France and Britain, but also the parts played by various Indian tribes and the other European powers. The last French and Indian War makes for colorful reading with its array of inept and daring commanders, epic heroism among the troops, far-flung battles and sieges, and creaking fleets of warships. Ironically, America's most famous founder, George Washington, helped to spark the war, first by trudging through the wilderness in the dead of winter with a message from Virginia Governor Dinwiddie to the French to abandon their forts in the upper Ohio River valley, then a half year later by ordering the war's first shots when his troops ambushed Captain Jumonville, and finally when he ignominiously surrendered his force at Fort Necessity and unwittingly signed a surrender document in French naming himself Jumonville's assassin. Topical chapters discuss the economic, political, social, and military attributes of the participants, and narrative chapters examine the campaigns of the war's first two years.
Rustic Warriors
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Author : Steven Eames
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2011-11
Rustic Warriors written by Steven Eames and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11 with History categories.
"Steven Eames has crafted an insightful and much needed examination of colonial warfare on the northern frontier. His analysis of the effectiveness of the New England militia provides a long overdue corrective to stereotypes of their incompetence."---Emerson W. Baker author of The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England --
The Canadian Way Of War
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Author : Bernd Horn
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2006
The Canadian Way Of War written by Bernd Horn and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Political Science categories.
This collection of essays underlines the reality that the "Canadian way of war" is a direct reflection of circumstances and political will.