George Washington's War On Native America - Couverture rigide

Mann, Barbara Alice

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0275981770 ISBN 13 : 9780275981778

Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 2005

Synopsis

The Revolutionary War is ordinarily presented as a conflict exclusively between colonists and the British, fought along the northern Atlantic seacoast. This important work recounts the tragic events on the forgotten Western front of the American Revolution—a war fought against and ultimately won by Native America. The Natives, primarily the Iroquois League and the Ohio Union, are erroneously presented in history texts as allies (or lackeys) of the British, but Native America was working from its own internally generated agenda: to prevent settlers from invading the Old Northwest. Native America won the war in the West, holding the land west and north of the Allegheny-Ohio River systems. While the British may have awarded these lands to the colonists in the Treaty of Paris, the Native Americans did not concur.

Throughout the war, the unwavering goal of the Revolutionary Army, under George Washington, and their associated settler militias was to break the power of the Iroquois League, which had successfully held off invasion for the preceding two centuries, and the newly formed Ohio Union. To destroy the Natives in the way of land seizure, Washington authorized a series of rampages intended to destroy the League and the Union by starvation. Food, livestock, homes, and trees were destroyed, first in the New York breadbaskets, then in the Ohio granaries—spreading famine across Native lands. Uncounted thousands of Natives perished from New York to Pennsylvania to Ohio. This book tells how, in the wake of the massive assaults, the Natives held back the American onslaught.

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À propos de l?auteur

Barbara Alice Mann is a Lecturer in the English Department of the University of Toledo. She is the author of Iroquoian Women: The Gantowisas (2000) and Native Americans, Archeologists, and the Mounds (2003), editor and author of Native American Speakers of the Eastern Woodlands (Greenwood, 2001), and co-editor and main contributor of Encyclopedia of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) (Greenwood, 2000).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0275981770
• ISBN 13: 9780275981778
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 316
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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