Praeger, Date: 2005-03-30. Hardcover. Good. 2005. Praeger ISBN 0275981770 9780275981778 [US]

Praeger, Date: 2005-03-30. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2005. Praeger ISBN 0275981770 9780275981778 [US]

ISBN10: 0275981770, ISBN13: 9780275981778, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Westport] Hardcover Hardcover. The American 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 to its own 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. Uncounted thousands of Natives perished from New York to Pennsylvania to Ohio. This book tells how, in the wake of ...

ISBN10: 0275981770, ISBN13: 9780275981778, [publisher: Bloomsbury 3PL] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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, ...
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ISBN10: 0275981770, ISBN13: 9780275981778, [publisher: Praeger] Hardcover First Edition 1st Printing of 1st Edition. Near Fine; looks almost as new. Clean, bright, tight, unmarked copy with no rips or creases. Unclipped dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Corner bumped. Quick, secure shipping with free delivery confirmation from Los Angeles bookstore. Photos available upon request. International shipping may be extra due to weight.
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