White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery, and Vengeance in Colonial America Brumwell Stephen
White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery, and Vengeance in Colonial America Brumwell Stephen A fast-moving tale of courage, cruelty, hardship, and savagery.--Pittsburgh Post-GazetteIn North…
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White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery, and Vengeance in Colonial America Brumwell Stephen
A fast-moving tale of courage, cruelty, hardship, and savagery.--Pittsburgh Post-GazetteIn North America's first major conflict, known today as the French and Indian War, France and England--both in alliance with Native American tribes--fought each other in a series of bloody battles and terrifying raids. That atrocity stoked calls for revenge, and the tough young Major Robert Rogers and his Rangers were ordered north into enemy territory to exact it.On the morning of October 4, 1759, Rogers and his men surprised the Abenaki Indian village of St. No confrontation was more brutal and notorious than the massacre of the British garrison of Fort William Henry--an incident memorably depicted in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans.
A nightmarish retreat followed. Francis, slaughtering its sleeping inhabitants without mercy. When, after terrible