Название: Empires at War: The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America, 1754-1763
Автор: William M. Fowler Jr.
Издательство: Walker Books
ISBN: 0802714110
Год: 2005
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 360
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 8,9 МБ
Язык: Английский
On May 28, 1754, a group of militia and Indians led by twenty-two-year-old major George Washington surprised a camp of sleeping French soldiers near present-day Pittsburgh. Washington could not have known it, but the brief and deadly exchange of fire that ensued lit the match that, in Horace Walpole's memorable phrase, would "set the world on fire." The resultung French and Indian War in North America became part of the global conflict known as the Seven Years War, fought across Europe, India, and the East and West Indies. Before it ended, nearly one million men had died.