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Author: Thomas A. Desjardin Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312339050 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 264
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A great military history about the early days of the American Revolution, Thomas A. Desjardin's Through a Howling Wilderness is also a timeless adventure narrative that tells of heroic acts, men pitted against nature's fury, and a fledgling nation's fight against a tyrannical oppressor. Before Benedict Arnold was branded a traitor, he was one of the colonies' most valuable leaders. In September 1775, eleven hundred soldiers boarded ships in Massachusetts, bound for the Maine wilderness. They had volunteered for a secret mission, under Arnold's command to march and paddle nearly two hundred miles and seize British Quebec. Before they reached the Canadian border, hundreds died, a hurricane destroyed canoes and equipment and many deserted. In the midst of a howling blizzard, the remaining troops attacked Quebec and almost took Canada from the British simultaneously weakening the British hand against Washington. With the enigmatic Benedict Arnold at its center, Desjardin has written one of the great American adventure stories.
Author: Thomas A. Desjardin Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312339050 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 264
Book Description
A great military history about the early days of the American Revolution, Thomas A. Desjardin's Through a Howling Wilderness is also a timeless adventure narrative that tells of heroic acts, men pitted against nature's fury, and a fledgling nation's fight against a tyrannical oppressor. Before Benedict Arnold was branded a traitor, he was one of the colonies' most valuable leaders. In September 1775, eleven hundred soldiers boarded ships in Massachusetts, bound for the Maine wilderness. They had volunteered for a secret mission, under Arnold's command to march and paddle nearly two hundred miles and seize British Quebec. Before they reached the Canadian border, hundreds died, a hurricane destroyed canoes and equipment and many deserted. In the midst of a howling blizzard, the remaining troops attacked Quebec and almost took Canada from the British simultaneously weakening the British hand against Washington. With the enigmatic Benedict Arnold at its center, Desjardin has written one of the great American adventure stories.
Author: Gary D. Joiner Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press ISBN: 9781572335448 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 340
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Through the Howling Wilderness is replete with in-depth coverage on the geography of the region, the Congressional hearings after the Campaign, and the Confederate defenses in the Red River Valley.
Author: Janet E. Nelson Rupert Publisher: ISBN: 9780989103404 Category : Indian captivities Languages : en Pages : 354
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Colonel Oliver Spencer was a Revolutionary War hero forced by post-war poverty to homestead in the -far West,- in the Ohio Valley. This was a dangerous proposition, since Native Americans were numerous and still in possession of the land. In this true story, the American government tried several times to wrest the land in Ohio from the Indians, but the natives spectacularly defeated the first of the military expeditions sent against them. Then Wapawaqua, an Iroquois living with Shawnee Indians, kidnapped the Colonel's son, ten-year-old Ollie Spencer, as the boy returned home from a Fourth of July celebration at Fort Washington in Cincinnati in 1792. This begins the boy's journey to becoming Indian while living with an Iroquois medicine woman and spiritualist, before his eventual rescue through diplomatic means with the aid of President Washington. Even then, the boy's adventure was not over as he began a circuitous and dangerous journey home. Finally, we learn how Ollie and his captors spent the rest of their lives, with the natives eventually fighting on the American side in the War of 1812 and their journey to a reservation in Kansas.
Author: Peter Holland Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 268
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A major new account of Pākehā and the land in New Zealand. During the nineteenth century European settlers transformed the environment of New Zealand’s South Island. They diverted streams and drained marshes, burned native vegetation and planted hedges and grasses, stocked farms with sheep and cattle and poured on fertiliser. In Home in the Howling Wilderness Peter Holland undertakes a deep history of that settlement to answer key questions about New Zealand’s ecological transformation. Did the settlers pursue farming regardless of the ecological consequences? Did they impose European plants, animals and farming methods on a very different environment? And did their efforts lead to the erosion, rabbit plagues and declining soil fertility of the late nineteenth century? Drawing on letter books and ledgers, diaries and journals, Peter Holland reveals how the first European settlers learned about their new environment: talking to Māori and other Pākehā, observing weather patterns and the shifting populations of rabbits, reading newspapers and going to lectures at the Mechanics’ Institute. Examining the knowledge they built up by these routes, Holland lays out how the settlers grappled with droughts and floods, worked out which plants and animals made sense, and worked out how to beat erosion and rabbits. As the New Zealand environment threw up surprise after surprise, the settlers who succeeded in farming were those who listened closely to the environment. They learned to predict weather more accurately, to farm differently with different soil types, to use different techniques of land management. In its depth and breadth of research, and with a visual component of 16 photographs and 22 figures, Home in the Howling Wilderness is a major new account of Pākehā and the land in New Zealand. --Publisher's information.
Author: Arthur S. Lefkowitz Publisher: Savas Beatie ISBN: 1611210038 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 596
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This “brilliant” account of Benedict Arnold’s military campaign to bring Canada into the Revolutionary War is “hard to put down”—includes maps (Mag Web). In 1775, Benedict Arnold led more than one thousand men through the Maine wilderness in order to reach Quebec, the capital of British-held Canada. His goal was to reach the fortress city and bring Canada into the Revolutionary War as the fourteenth colony. When George Washington learned of a route to Quebec that followed a chain of rivers and lakes through the Maine wilderness, he picked Col. Benedict Arnold to command the surprise assault. The route to Canada was 270 miles of rapids, waterfalls, and dense forests that took months to traverse. Arnold led his famished corps through early winter snow and waist-high freezing water, up and over the Appalachian Mountains, and finally, to Quebec. In Benedict Arnold’s Army, award-winning author Arthur S. Lefkowitz traces the troops’ grueling journey, examining Arnold’s character at the time and how this campaign influenced him later in the Revolutionary War. After multiple trips to the route Arnold’s army took, Lefkowitz also includes detailed information and maps for readers to follow the expedition’s route from the coast of Main to Quebec City.
Author: Janet Rupert Publisher: ISBN: 9781705473801 Category : Languages : en Pages : 341
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Ollie saw Mr. Light spring suddenly into the river and the stranger at the stern falling over toward the shore. In the next moment, he heard the sharp crack of two rifles in instant succession, the sound lagging the bullets, and looked toward the willows about ten yards above him. He saw through the thick smoke of their guns two Indians with faces painted black as midnight (a symbol they were ready to die), rushing toward the canoe. Never would Ollie forget his feelings at that moment. For an instant he stood motionless, and then he involuntarily drew down his head between his shoulders. His brief reflection was, I have made some narrow escapes, but now death is inevitable.One Indian, Wapawaqua, was now within ten feet of him. In his right hand was the uplifted tomahawk, and in his left, the naked scalping knife. Instantly wheeling, Ollie ran toward the water, hoping to reach the canoe and push out into the river. The Indian passed above him down to the shore and struck his tomahawk into the head of the unfortunate stranger. Seizing him by the hair, he passed his knife quickly around the scalp and tore it violently off, holding it up for a moment with fiendish exultation. Finding he could not gain the canoe which by this time had got out into the current, Ollie turned from the heart-sickening sight of the mangled man. Dreading every moment a similar fate, he next attempted to run down the river in the vain hope of escaping. He had not gone ten steps when discovering his design, the other Indian easily headed him. Instead, however, of seizing him violently, he approached within a few feet and extended his hand in token of peace. Ollie took it. Feeling assured of present safety from what he had heard of the character and customs of Indians, he became at once calm. The whole of these events occupied no more than thirty seconds. Ten-year-old Ollie was with the Shawnee for a mere six months. During that time he learned their language, witnessed their ceremonies and spirituality, learned to hunt and live off the land, and was close to being completely integrated into his new family and culture; close to "becoming Indian."Oliver (O.M.) Spencer was born in New Jersey in 1781. Known as Ollie as a youth, he was the son of Colonel Oliver Spencer, a wealthy tanner and noted Revolutionary War officer, and Anne Spencer, the daughter of Robert Ogden, who headed the New Jersey Assembly before the war. Due to post-war poverty, when Ollie was nine years of age, his family went west to the new villages of Columbia and Cincinnati to make a living from farming. This was a dangerous enterprise, as the local natives were still numerous and in possession of the land. Ollie was one of many thousands of settlers who Native Americans kidnapped. Doing so enabled them to replenish their numbers, depleted by war deaths and illnesses, while they battled for their land. The natives were particularly fond of taking children and bringing them up as their own. Most of the children taken, after a year or two with the natives, never wanted to return to "white life."Included in this story are the wars leading up to the time of Ollie's capture and the final battle that defeated the Shawnee in Ohio. In the last chapters we follow not only Ollie's adult life but the lives of his two captors on the side of the Americans in the War of 1812, their life on the Lewistown Reservation, and ultimately, their journey west to a new reservation.
Author: Peter Holland Publisher: Auckland University Press ISBN: 1775580032 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 391
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During the 19th century, New Zealand's South Island underwent an environmental transformation at the hands of European settlers. They diverted streams and drained marshes, burned native vegetation and planted hedges and grasses, stocked farms with sheep and cattle and poured on fertilizer. Through various letter books, ledgers, diaries, and journals, this book reveals how the first European settlers learned about their new environment: talking to Maori and other Pakeha, observing weather patterns and the shifting populations of rabbits, reading newspapers, and going to lectures at the Mechanics' Institute. As the New Zealand environment threw up surprise after surprise, the settlers who succeeded in farming were those who listened closely to the environment. This rich and detailed contribution to environmental history and the literature of British colonial history and farming concludes—contrary to the assertions of some North American environmental historians—that the first generation of European settlers in New Zealand were by no means unthinking agents of change.
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