Название: Braddock's Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution
Автор: David L. Preston
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199845328
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 480
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 27,5 МБ
Язык: Английский
On July 9, 1755, British and colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock suffered a crushing defeat to French and Native American enemy forces. The Battle of the Monongahela altered the trajectory of the Seven Years' War in America, greatly escalating the war and inexorably defining its military and political character. The Monongahela was an unprecedented rout of a modern and powerful British army by a predominantly Indian force, and as David Preston shows in this gripping new account, no other battle before 1775 had such a searing effect on the colonial British world.
The culmination of a failed attempt to capture Fort Duquesne from the French, Braddock's Defeat was a pivotal moment in American and world history, ranking with the destruction of Varus's legions in the Teutoburg Forest, Noche Triste, St. Clair's Defeat, and the Little Bighorn as examples of imperial forces falling to indigenous foes.