The battle of North America is often a part of our history classes that we pay little attention though the outcomes are crucial in determine the eventual outcome of one English speaking country instead of the possibility of several Algonquin and French speaking countries. These countries would of been a barrier to Western expansion and the immigrant country we know today that dominates the landscape. Author Robert Leckie illuminates these French ad English conflicts wrapping up three wars on the even of the American revolution.
The colorful detail has been a part of Mr Leckie previous histor books and in this one he again recounts the reader with enough narrative and equivocal retell making them great books reflect on the time period of these conflicts. He makes little difficulty in explaining the battles and engagements between professional soldier and savage for control of this land,ass between two expanding empires that had a vey different outlook to land control and Native management. The book goes from the founding of New France along the St Lawrence to the eventual construction of forts and claim of Ohio this book called "A Few Acres Of Snow" shows what really France and England was fight for in this very in hostile lands with brutal winters. The allure of the French population to keep pace with the growing English colonies was always a source of major concern to the French crown. This was despite every effort to promote marriage and having children including grants and money to entice Frenchmen to migrate to Canada. Enumerous Iroquois raids failed to discourage these settlements and the French basically went on to be friends withnevernother tribe except this one that would be their perpetual enemy.
The ironic fact that it was the French and not the British that first to incur the wrath of Natives is something that is to lost on Leckie as throughout these various wars Indians always sided with the much more culturally tolerant French. This is basically a book mostly about the French North American experience and the European wars that found their way across the oceans and this reading sums p the major Fewnch colonial history up to 1763. The eventual exhaustion of the Iroquois who are described in this book as human wolves with their fondness of torture and constant warpath against French and other Indians reduced them to oblivian from the regional power they once were. The French would be treated as well with the fall of Louisburg and the betraylat at Quebec which made them kaput as a power in North America unable to exploit and use Indians to strengthen their precarious position on this continent. This book fully examines the French and Indian fall in a brillant masterpiece book of historical significant for researchers of this era.
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