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Indians and British outposts in eighteenth-century America /

This fascinating look at the cultural and military importance of British forts in the colonial era explains how these forts served as communities in Indian country more than as bastions of British imperial power. Their security depended on maintaining good relations with the local Native Americans,...

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Основен автор: Ingram, Daniel Patrick, 1960-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ℗♭2012.
Предмети:
Great Britain. > Army > Military life > History > 18th century.
Great Britain. > Army.
1600-1799
Indians of North America > First contact with Europeans.
Fortification > United States > History > 18th century.
Frontier and pioneer life > United States.
History.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Armed Forces > Military life.
British colonies.
Fortification.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Military readiness.
Race relations.
United States > Race relations > History > 18th century.
Great Britain > Colonies > America > Defenses.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
America.
United States > .
Electronic books.
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Съдържание:
  • Introduction: British forts and Indian neighbors
  • The Key to Carolina: Old Hop, Little Carpenter, and the making of Fort Loudoun, 1756-1759
  • Anxious hospitality: loitering at Fort Allen, 1756-1761
  • The greatest mart of all: trade, food, drink, and interdependence at Michilimackinac, 1761- 1796
  • A year at Niagara: violence, diplomacy, and coexistence in the eastern Great Lakes, 1763- 1764
  • Like stars that fall: keeping up appearances at Fort Chartres, 1765-1772
  • Conclusion: the Mohawks' new world.

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