Author: Paul R. Misencik
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476615403
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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George Washington and the Half-King Chief Tanacharison details the events in western Pennsylvania that precipitated the French and Indian War. It describes the interpersonal relationship between 22-year-old, inexperienced, but self-assured George Washington and the 54-year-old wily Iroquois Chief Tanacharison, which led to, as Horace Walpole quipped, Washington firing “a volley in the backwoods of America that set the world on fire.” The book explores the history of the French and English rivalry for the trans–Allegheny territory and its impact on the Indians in the area. It shows how Washington and Tanacharison each sought to influence the other to gain support for their respective agendas. Washington wanted the Indians to endorse Virginia’s claim to the Ohio territory, while Tanacharison wanted a war between England and France so that the Iroquois could maintain their dominance over the Ohio Indians. The book describes in detail the sequence of events through which the crafty half-king manipulated Washington into starting the war he wanted, and by his actions implicated Washington in nothing less than a cold-blooded murder.
Author: Paul R. Misencik
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786479507
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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George Washington and the Half-King Chief Tanacharison details the events in western Pennsylvania that precipitated the French and Indian War. It describes the interpersonal relationship between 22-year-old, inexperienced, but self-assured George Washington and the 54-year-old wily Iroquois Chief Tanacharison, which led to, as Horace Walpole quipped, Washington firing "a volley in the backwoods of America that set the world on fire." The book explores the history of the French and English rivalry for the trans-Allegheny territory and its impact on the Indians in the area. It shows how Washington and Tanacharison each sought to influence the other to gain support for their respective agendas. Washington wanted the Indians to endorse Virginia's claim to the Ohio territory, while Tanacharison wanted a war between England and France so that the Iroquois could maintain their dominance over the Ohio Indians. The book describes in detail the sequence of events through which the crafty half-king manipulated Washington into starting the war he wanted, and by his actions implicated Washington in nothing less than a cold-blooded murder.
Author: William M. Thayer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Author: Norman Hapgood
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Company ; London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Author: Washington Irving
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Author: Joseph J. Ellis
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400032539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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National Bestseller To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses George Washington as a military and political leader and a man whose “statue-like solidity” concealed volcanic energies and emotions. Here is the impetuous young officer whose miraculous survival in combat half-convinced him that he could not be killed. Here is the free-spending landowner whose debts to English merchants instilled him with a prickly resentment of imperial power. We see the general who lost more battles than he won and the reluctant president who tried to float above the partisan feuding of his cabinet. His Excellency is a magnificent work, indispensable to an understanding not only of its subject but also of the nation he brought into being.
Author: George Washington
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813904023
Category : Washington's Expedition to the Ohio, 1st, 1753-1754
Languages : en
Pages : 41
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An account of his first official mission, made as emissary from the Governor of Virginia to the commandant of the French forces on the Ohio, October, 1753-January, 1754.
Author: Sterling North
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402736117
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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A brief biography of the Commander-in-Chief of the American forces during the Revolution and first President of the new country.
Author: William M. Thayer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Author: Brady Crytzer
Publisher: History Press (SC)
ISBN: 9781609490461
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 125
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"During the winter of 1753 George Washington accepted the first, and potentially most dangerous, mission of his life ... The resulting tale ... set the stage for the French and Indian War and forever changed Washington's destiny ... Using firsthand accounts, including the journals of George Washington himself, historian Brady Crytzer reconstructs the complex world of eighteenth-century Pittsburgh"--Page 4 of cover.
