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A fast-moving tale of courage, cruelty, hardship, and Post-Gazette
In North Americas first major conflict, known today as the French and Indian War, France and Englandboth in alliance with Native American tribesfought each other in a series of bloody battles and terrifying raids. No confrontation was more brutal and notorious than the massacre of the British garrison of Fort William Henryan incident memorably depicted in James Fenimore Coopers The Last of the Mohicans. That atrocity stoked calls for revenge, and the tough young Major Robert Rogers and his Rangers were ordered north into enemy territory to exact it.
On the morning of October 4, 1759, Rogers and his men surprised the Abenaki Indian village of St. Francis, slaughtering its sleeping inhabitants without mercy. A nightmarish retreat followed. When, after terrible hardships, the raiders finally returned to safety, they were hailed as heroes by the colonists, and their leader was immortalized as the brave Major Rogers. But the Abenakis remembered Rogers differently: To them he was WobomagondaWhite Devil.
Author: Stephen Brumwell
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 03/07/2006
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.9lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780306814730
Language: English
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