Michael Dekker

French & Indian Wars in Maine (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Covering nearly a century of conflict, this history chronicles the tragic, epic struggle for the land that would become Maine. For eight decades, a power struggle raged across a frontier on the north Atlantic coast now known as the state of Maine. Between 1675 and 1759, British, French, and Native Americans soldiers clashed in six distinct wars to claim the strategically vital region. In French and Indian Wars in Maine, historian Michael Dekker sheds light on this dark, tragic and largely forgotten struggle that laid the foundation of Maine. Though the showdown between France and Great Britain was international in scale, the local conflicts in Maine pitted European settlers against Native American tribes. Native and European communities from the Penobscot to the Piscataqua Rivers suffered brutal attacks. Countless men, women and children were killed, taken captive or sold into servitude. The native people of Maine were torn asunder by disease, social disintegration and political factionalism as they fought to maintain their autonomy in the face of unrelenting European pressure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781625855749
• Artikelnr.: 43591956

Autorenporträt

Michael Dekker is a former trustee on the Lincoln County Historical Society board of directors. He is a member of the Boothbay Region Historical Society and has served in leadership capacities with living history organizations throughout Maine. Michael's research and living history work focuses on the French and Indian Wars and the American Revolution. He has done extensive research on the conflicts and politics of Maine during the first half of the eighteenth century.