Rustic warriors
Subtitle: warfare and the provincial soldier on the New England frontier, 1689-1748
By: Steven C. Eames
Series: Warfare and culture
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780814722701; 9780814722718; 9780814722879
Subjects: Warfare; Military History; New England; New Hampshire; Massachusetts; Massachusetts. Militia; New Hampshire. Militia; New Englanders; History
Other titles: Warfare and the provincial soldier on the New England frontier, 1689-1748
Description: "The early French Wars (1689-1748) in North America saw provincial soldiers, or British white settlers, in Massachusetts and New Hampshire fight against New France and her Native American allies with minimal involvement from England ... Steven Eames demonstrates that [the battlefield style that] developed in early New England was ... a unique way of war that selectively blended elements of European military strategy, frontier fighting, and native American warfare. This new form of warfare responded to and influenced the particular challenges, terrain, and demography of early New England. Drawing upon a wealth of primary materials on King William's War, Queen Anne's War, Dummer's War, and King George's War, Eames offers a bottom-up view of how war was conducted and how war was experienced in this particular period and place"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-301) and index.