1755-1763, french and indian war

A comprehensive overview of the French and Indian War, including biographies and full or excerpted memoirs, speeches, and other source documents.

James Fenimore Cooper's classic novel, set on Lake Ontario during the French and Indian Wars and featuring Natty Bumppo and Mohican chief Chingachgook, who serve as scouts for the British.

In upper New York State during the French and Indian War, a woodsman named Hawkeye and two Mohicans, Chingachgook and Uncas, get entangled in the fighting as they try to save two pioneer sisters abducted by Iroquois tribesmen.

Offers a brief histoy of the French and Indian War, profiling key figures and events that impacted the war's outcome.

Examines the period between 1660 and 1763 in the history of America, discussing the maturing of the country from a collection of frontier settlements to well-established, organized communities, and looking at the conflict between various European powers for control of North America and its potential wealth.

Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman's daughter, thirteen-year-old Zettie records the events of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the New World where they are inadvertently drawn into the hostilities of the ongoing French and Indian War and, eventually, find a new direction to their lives.

A tale of adventure, treachery, and friendship in the battle-torn wilderness of eighteenth-century upstate New York.

A Mohican brave struggles to protect two English girls from an evil Huron during the French and Indian War in upstate New York.

Explains what it was like to be a soldier in the French and British armies during the French and Indian War, providing information about important military leaders, uniforms, the roles of the artillery, cavalry, and infantry, and the significance of frontier forts to the outcome of the conflict.

Kidnapped by raiding Abnaki Indians during the French and Indian War, seventeen-year-old Sarah must make a choice between life in slavery or death by torture.