This book explores the evolution of Americans' first way of war, to show how war waged again Indian noncombatant population and agricultural resources became the method early Americans' employed and, ultimately, defined their military heritage. The sanguinary story of the American conquest of the Indian peoples east of the Mississippi River helps demonstrate how early Americans embraced warfare shaped by extravagant violence and focused on conquest. Grenier provides a major revision in understanding the place of warfare directed on noncombatants in the American military tradition, and his...
This book explores the evolution of Americans' first way of war, to show how war waged again Indian noncombatant population and agricultural resources...
"The Far Reaches of Empire" chronicles the half century of Anglo-American efforts to establish dominion in Nova Scotia, an important French foothold in the New World. John Grenier examines the conflict of cultures and peoples in the colonial Northeast through the lens of military history as he tells how Britons and Yankees waged a tremendously efficient counterinsurgency that ultimately crushed every remnant of Acadian, Indian, and French resistance in Nova Scotia.
The author demonstrates the importance of warfare in the Anglo-French competition for North America, showing especially how...
"The Far Reaches of Empire" chronicles the half century of Anglo-American efforts to establish dominion in Nova Scotia, an important French foothol...
