During the 1750s, rival European colonists sought allies amongst Native American tribes. Abenaki warbands raided the English settlements and participated in the infamous massacre at Fort William Henry -- an incident immortalised in THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS. This episode fuelled an escalating cycle of revenge that reached a bloody climax two years later when Robert Rogers and his rangers were ordered deep within enemy territory to destroy the Abenaki village of St Francis, which they did with ruthless efficiency. However the raiders endured a nightmare journey as they struggled home. Several were caught by vengeful pursuers and tortured to death; others resorted to cannibalism rather than starve in the wilderness. Rogers' raid was celebrated by Anglo-American colonists, and its leader is credited with founding the 'special forces' tradition in the US Army. Others view the St Francis raid as an eighteenth-century My Lai massacre, in which helpless men and women were butchered. Eschewing prejudices, Stephen Brumwell deploys vivid prose and meticulous research to reconstruct this controversial and dramatic episode from America's violent frontier past.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Orion Publishing Group
ISBN-13
9780297846772
eBay Product ID (ePID)
88872169
Product Key Features
Book Title
The White Devil: an Epic Story of Revenge and Savage War That Inspired the Last of the Mohicans
Author
Stephen Brumwell
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
335 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
250mm
Item Width
170mm
Item Weight
671g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Stephen Brumwell
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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