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White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America

White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America

O'Toole, Fintan

Paperback

Series: Excelsior Editions

Historical FiguresNative American HistoryColonial Period (1600-1775)

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1438427581
ISBN13: 9781438427584
Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New Yo
Published: Apr 1 2009
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Brings a strikingly original perspective to Johnson's life, and suggests new ways of thinking about Johnson's part in creating a nation he did not live to see.

William Johnson was scarcely more than a boy when he left Ireland and his Gaelic, Roman Catholic family to become a Protestant in the service of Britain's North American empire. In New York by 1738, Johnson moved to the frontiers along the Mohawk River, where he established himself as a fur trader and eventually became a landowner with vast estates. Serving as principal British intermediary with the Iroquois Confederacy, he commanded British, colonial, and Iroquois forces that defeated the French in the battle of Lake George in 1755, and he created the first groups of rangers, who fought like American Indians and led the way to the Patriots' victories in the Revolution.

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