The Border Wars of New England
Author : Samuel Adams Drake
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 1897
Category : New England
ISBN :
Author : Samuel Adams Drake
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 1897
Category : New England
ISBN :
Author : John Sadler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 25,3 MB
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1317865286
Border Fury provides a fascinating account of the period of Anglo-Scottish Border conflict from the Edwardian invasions of 1296 until the Union of the Crowns under James VI of Scotland, James I of England in 1603. It looks at developments in the art of war during the period, the key transition from medieval to renaissance warfare, the development of tactics, arms, armour and military logistics during the period. All the key personalities involved are profiled and the typology of each battle site is examined in detail with the author providing several new interpretations that differ radically from those that have previously been understood.
Author : Ann M. Little
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 26,52 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0812202643
In 1678, the Puritan minister Samuel Nowell preached a sermon he called "Abraham in Arms," in which he urged his listeners to remember that "Hence it is no wayes unbecoming a Christian to learn to be a Souldier." The title of Nowell's sermon was well chosen. Abraham of the Old Testament resonated deeply with New England men, as he embodied the ideal of the householder-patriarch, at once obedient to God and the unquestioned leader of his family and his people in war and peace. Yet enemies challenged Abraham's authority in New England: Indians threatened the safety of his household, subordinates in his own family threatened his status, and wives and daughters taken into captivity became baptized Catholics, married French or Indian men, and refused to return to New England. In a bold reinterpretation of the years between 1620 and 1763, Ann M. Little reveals how ideas about gender and family life were central to the ways people in colonial New England, and their neighbors in New France and Indian Country, described their experiences in cross-cultural warfare. Little argues that English, French, and Indian people had broadly similar ideas about gender and authority. Because they understood both warfare and political power to be intertwined expressions of manhood, colonial warfare may be understood as a contest of different styles of masculinity. For New England men, what had once been a masculinity based on household headship, Christian piety, and the duty to protect family and faith became one built around the more abstract notions of British nationalism, anti-Catholicism, and soldiering for the Empire. Based on archival research in both French and English sources, court records, captivity narratives, and the private correspondence of ministers and war officials, Abraham in Arms reconstructs colonial New England as a frontier borderland in which religious, cultural, linguistic, and geographic boundaries were permeable, fragile, and contested by Europeans and Indians alike.
Author : Samuel Adams Drake
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 11,22 MB
Release : 1897
Category : New England
ISBN :
Author : Alexander Scott Withers
Publisher :
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN :
The focal point of Chronicles of Border Warfare is the American settlement throughout the northwestern portion of colonial Virginia (an area which today encompasses parts of Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania) from the French and Indian War to the Battle of Fallen Timbers, and the ensuing clashes with the indigenous population. -- From the publisher.
Author : Jeptha Root Simms
Publisher :
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 49,82 MB
Release : 1845
Category : Germans
ISBN :
Author : Michael Braddick
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0141926511
The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was the single most traumatic event in this country between the medieval Black Death and the two world wars. Indeed, it is likely that a greater percentage of the population were killed in the civil wars than in the First World War. This sense of overwhelming trauma gives this major new history its title: God’s Fury, England’s Fire. The name of a pamphlet written after the king’s surrender, it sums up the widespread feeling within England that the seemingly endless nightmare that had destroyed families, towns and livelihoods was ordained by a vengeful God – that the people of England had sinned and were now being punished. As with all civil wars, however, ‘God’s fury’ could support or destroy either side in the conflict. Was God angry at Charles I for failing to support the true, protestant, religion and refusing to work with Parliament? Or was God angry with those who had dared challenge His anointed Sovereign? Michael Braddick’s remarkable book gives the reader a vivid and enduring sense both of what it was like to live through events of uncontrollable violence and what really animated the different sides. The killing of Charles I and the declaration of a republic – events which even now seem in an English context utterly astounding – were by no means the only outcomes, and Braddick brilliantly describes the twists and turns that led to the most radical solutions of all to the country’s political implosion. He also describes very effectively the influence of events in Scotland, Ireland and the European mainland on the conflict in England. God’s Fury, England’s Fire allows readers to understand once more the events that have so fundamentally marked this country and which still resonate centuries after their bloody ending.
Author : Alden T. Vaughan
Publisher : Boston : Little, Brown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 12,60 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN :
Author : Steven C. Eames
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814722717
Taking issue with historians who have criticized provincial soldiers' battlefield style, strategy, and conduct, Eames demonstrates that what developed in early New England was in fact a unique way of war that selectively blended elements of European military strategy, frontier fighting, and native American warfare.
Author : Steven Eames
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 2011-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0814722709
"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 --