The film explores the French and Indian War, a pivotal conflict between France and England in the mid-18th century that determined control over North America. It discusses the initial military ...
The American Revolution was a defining moment in the history of Pennsylvania. Neighbor turned against neighbor amidst a desperate civil war in colonial America. Indigenous societies were uprooted from ...
For many colonists, the American Revolution provided the opportunity to continue displacing Native Americans. This book provides an account of the role of Native Americans in the Revolution's outbreak ...
Introduction: The war that won a continent -- Colliding empires (1748-1756) -- 1. The bells of Aix-la-Chapelle -- 2. Beautiful Ohio -- Albany, 1754 -- Braddock's ...
The Civil War must have been a confusing time for Native Americans. Pushed from the east and relegated to Indian Territory, the group known as the Five Civilized Tribes were pressured from both ...
LIGONIER, PENNSYLVANIA—On November 12, 1758, George Washington, then a colonel in the British army, faced imminent peril. Years later, he wrote that his life was in as “much jeopardy as it ever had ...
Charles Norman Shay, a Native American veteran who was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed off the Normandy coast on ...