Barbara Alice Mann

George Washington's War on Native America (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313057809
• Artikelnr.: 68528404

Autorenporträt

Barbara Alice Mann is professor of humanities in the Jesup Scott Honors College at the University of Toledo, and is the author of 13 books.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword Bruce E. Johansen Acknowledgments Introduction
"Niggur-in-Law to Old Sattan": How the West Was Really Won 1 "The Vile
Hands of the Savages": Countdown to Total War, 1775-1778 2 "Shooting
Pigeons": The Goose Van Schaick Sweep through Onondaga, April 1779 3 "The
Wolves of the Forest": The Brodhead March up the Allegheny,
August-September 1779 4 "Extirpate Those Hell-Hounds from off the Face of
the Earth": The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign, 9 August-30 September 1779 5
"Keep That Nest of Hornets Quiet": The Ohio Campaigns of 1779-1781 6 "Two
Mighty Gods with Their Mouth Wide Open": Settler Assaults on Ohio, 1782
Notes Bibliography Index