To risk it all : General Forbes, the capture of Fort Duquesne, and the course of empire in the Ohio country /

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"General John Forbes's campaign against Fort Duquesne was the largest over-land expedition during the Seven Years' War in America. While most histories of the time period include the Forbes Campaign as an aside, McConnell documents how and why Forbes and his army succeeded, and what h...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McConnell, Michael N. (Michael Norman) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Pittsburgh, Pa.] : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Forbes, John, > 1707-1759.
1754-1763
Forbes Expedition against Fort Duquesne, Pa., 1758.
HISTORY / General
Fort Duquesne (Pa.)
United States > History > French and Indian War, 1754-1763.
Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh, Penns.)
États-Unis > Histoire > 1754-1763 (Guerre de Sept Ans)
Pennsylvania > Fort Duquesne
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction An Empire at War
  • New York and Philadelphia, Winter-Spring 1758
  • Friends and Enemies, Winter-Spring 1758
  • Preparations, May 1758
  • Moving West, June 1758
  • Raystown, July 1758
  • Forbes's Road, July-August 1758
  • Loyalhannon and Fort Duquesne, September 1758
  • Loyalhannon, October 1758
  • Easton and the Kuskuskies, October-November 1758
  • Loyalhannon and Fort Duquesne, October-November 1758
  • November 1758-March 1759.

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