Middleton Pontiac's War

Its Causes, Course and Consequences
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-135-86417-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Pontiac’s War: Its Causes, Course, and Consequence, 1763-1765 is a compelling retelling of one of the most pivotal points in American colonial history, in which the Native peoples staged one of the most successful campaigns in three centuries of European contact. With his balanced analysis of the organization and execution of this important conflict, Middleton sheds light on the military movement that forced the British imperial forces to reinstate diplomacy to retain their authority over the region.

Spotlighting the Native American perspective, Pontiac’s War presents a careful, engaging account of how very close to success those Native American forces truly came.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Middleton, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRO: The Middle Ground of Onontio

- An Entente Cordiale

- The French King calls for Help

- The Changing Fortunes of War

- The Collapse of New France

CH 1: The New Order of Sir Jeffery Amherst

- Amherst and the British Establishment

- Gift Giving versus a Market Economy

- Trade and Ammunition

- The Forts, Law and Order

- Land and Settlement

- Prisoners or Family?



CH 2: The Seneca Plan a War of Liberation

- Tahaiadoris and Kiashuta: the French Connection

- Johnson goes to Detroit to investigate

- The Occupation Completed: the Western Posts



CH 3: Uneasy Peace, 1762-3

- Unresolved Problems

- War Belts

- Neolin: A Prophet Speaks



CH 4: Pontiac Takes the Initiative: Detroit

- A leader emerges

- The Siege begins

- Widening Visions

- Stalemate, July 1763



CH 5: The Spreading Conflagration

- Fort Pitt comes under Siege

- Michilimackinac falls to the Ojibwa

- The Capture of St Joseph, Miami and Ouiatanon

- The Seneca join the War: Venango, Le Boeuf and Presqu’Isle



CH 6: The Empire Fights Back

- Amherst plans a Counter Attack

- Detroit: The Battle of the Bloody Brook

- Fort Pitt: The Battle of Bushy Run



CH 7: Amherst Tries Again

a) The Tribulations of Command

- Niagara: the Battle of the Devil’s Hole

- Detroit: The Siege Suspended

CH 8: Winter Interlude

a) Gage Takes Command

- Frontier Strife: The Paxton Boys

- Johnson’s winter offensive

- Rapprochement with the Seneca.



CH 9: The Campaign for the Great Lakes, 1764

- Indian Defense Plans

- British Preparations: The Niagara Conference

- The Search for Peace: the Mission of Captain Morris

- The Thwarting of John Bradstreet

CH 10: Peace Comes to the Ohio Valley

a) Bouquet prepares for Battle

b) A Meeting at Muskingum

CH 11: Pontiac and the Struggle for the Illinois

- The Mississippi: Invasion Route or Pathway to Peace?

- Diplomatic Endeavors: The Fraser and Sinnott Missions

- Croghan and Pontiac unlock the Impasse

CONCLUSIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Middleton was for many years a Reader in American History at The Queen’s University, Belfast. He is the author of The Bells of Victory: The Pitt Newcastle Ministry and the Conduct of the Seven Years’ War, 1757-1762, and Colonial America, A History, 1565-1776. He is now an independent writer and scholar.