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War on the run : the epic story of Robert Rogers and the conquest of America's first frontier
- Title
- War on the run : the epic story of Robert Rogers and the conquest of America's first frontier / John F. Ross.
- Author
- Ross, John F.
- Publication
- New York : Bantam Books, [2009], ©2009.
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| Text | Request in advance | E199.R74 R676 2009 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxiv, 548 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-534) and index.
- Contents
- Dramatis Personae -- Chronology -- The Bet -- Pt. I. New in a New World -- Ch. 1. Into the Wilderness -- Ch. 2. First Encounters on the Frontier -- Ch. 3. Savage Justice -- Ch. 4. Taken by Indians -- Ch. 5. The Counterfeiter -- Pt. II. Reinventing War -- Ch. 6. The War Begins -- Ch. 7. First Sorties -- Ch. 8. Honing Skills -- Ch. 9. An Independent Company of Rangers -- Ch. 10. Ambush in the Snow -- Ch. 11. Tragedy at Fort William Henry -- Ch. 12. Mutiny on Rogers' Island -- Ch. 13. Taunting His Foe -- Ch. 14. Battle on Snowshoes -- Ch. 15. Blood on the Snow -- Pt. III. Ordeals of Empire -- Ch. 16. Disaster at Carillon -- Ch. 17. "Come Up, You French Dogs...Like Men!" -- Ch. 18. Allegro Guerriero -- Ch. 19. To Carillon Once Again -- Ch. 20. Mission Impossible -- Ch. 21. Ordeal Through Spruce Bogs -- Ch. 22. Starvation -- Ch. 23. Betrayal -- Ch. 24. Horror on the Ice -- Ch. 25. Pressing the French -- Pt. IV. Continental Visions -- Ch. 26. A Race West to Claim the Continent for Britain -- Ch. 27. Detroit -- Ch. 28. To South Carolina -- Ch. 29. A Dream Is Born -- Ch. 30. Great Lakes Tribes Declare War -- Ch. 31. Encounter with Pontiac -- Ch. 32. Imperial Capital -- Ch. 33. A Concise Account of North America -- Pt. V. Patrons and Enemies -- Ch. 34. Trouble Brewing -- Ch. 35. The Northwest Passage -- Ch. 36. Treason! -- Ch. 37. Locked Up and Charged -- Ch. 38. Failing Fortunes -- Pt. VI. Hard Choices -- Ch. 39. A Bitter Homecoming -- Ch. 40. Confrontation with George Washington -- Ch. 41. Catching Nathan Hale -- Ch. 42. End Games -- Appendix 1. Rogers's Rules of Ranging -- Appendix 2. Saint-Francois Map of 1759 -- Appendix 3. The Hopkins Letter -- Appendix 4. General Washington to the President of Congress.
- ISBN
- 9780553804966 (hardcover)
- 0553804960 (hardcover)
- 9780553906653 (ebook)
- 0553906658 (ebook)
- LCCN
- 2009002107
- OCLC
- ocn262433273
- 262433273
- SCSB-5479160
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries