The European Invasion of North America

Colonial Conflict Along the Hudson-Champlain Corridor, 1609–1760

Michael G. Laramie

• Publisher: Praeger
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780313397370
• eBook ISBN: 9798216081579
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Early American History
• Index: History

This comprehensive resource follows the pivotal and often overlooked efforts of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Dutch, the French, and the English colonies to control the strategic waterways of the Hudson-Champlain corridor from their discovery to the fall of New France. From Champlain and Hudson's initial voyages some 400 years ago, to the surrender of Montreal in 1760, The European Invasion of North America: Colonial Conflict Along the Hudson - Champlain Corridor, 1609–1760 offers unprecedented coverage of the 150-year struggle between New World rivals along this natural invasion route—a struggle which would ultimately determine the destiny of North America. Unlike other volumes on this period, The European Invasion of North America includes extensive coverage from the French and Dutch as well as British perspectives, examining events in the context of larger colonial confrontations. Drawing on hundreds of firsthand accounts, it recaps political maneuvers and blunders, military successes and failures, and the remarkable people behind them all: cabinet ministers in Paris, Amsterdam, and London; colonial leaders such as Stuyvesant, Frontenac, and Montcalm; shrewd diplomats of the Iroquois Confederacy; and soldiers and families on all sides of the conflict. It also highlights the growing friction between Britain and her American colonies, which would soon lead to a different war.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1. The First Volley
• 2. The Long Storm
• 3. The King’s Men
• 4. Courcelle’s Folly
• 5. The Mohawks at Bay
• 6. The New Netherlands
• 7. Toil, Turmoil, and Defeat
• 8. New York
• 9. The Burning of Schenectady
• 10. To the Gates of Montreal
• 11. The Mohawk Expedition
• 12. Queen Anne’s War
• 13. A Chain of Forts
• 14. The Scourge of Scalp Point
• 15. Stalemate and Skirmish
• 16. “A Most Favorable Opportunity”
• 17. The Bloody Morning Scout
• 18. The Battle of Lake George
• 19. No Advance, No Retreat
• 20. Fort Vaudreuil
• 21. “Our Wisdom Is Be Come Folly, Our Councils Confusion”
• 22. The Partisan War
• 23. Rigaud’s Expedition
• 24. Fort William Henry
• 25. Siege
• 26. “Relief Is Greatly Wanted”
• 27. Tainted Victory
• 28. The French Zenith
• 29. “An Irruption into Canada”
• 30. An Impossible Task
• 31. “Never (a) Ball Had a More Deadly Direction”
• 32. The Heights of Carillon
• 33. The Battle of Ticonderoga
• 34. Mr. Nabbercromby’s Army
• 35. Amherst
• 36. A Reversal of Fortune
• 37. Iron Men and Wooden Ships
• 38. “The Total Reduction of Canada”
• 39. The Old Invasion Route
• Appendix A: Maps of the Hudson–Champlain Corridor
• Appendix B: French and English Casualty Returns for the Battles of Lake George and Ticonderoga
• Appendix C: Warships on Lake George and Lake Champlain, 1742–1760
• Notes
• Sources
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author