"Using colorful storytelling techniques, Logusz captures the personalities of those individuals who played a pivotal role in the outcome of the Mohawk Valley Campaign...breathes dramatic life into a depiction of the long standing alliances and rivalries that fueled Patriot and Loyalist causes in the region, while describing how neighbors, families, friends and foes were caught up in Burgoyne's doomed play."ÑToy Soldier and Model Figure "Logusz does an excellent job outlining the Battle of Oriskany, where an initial Patriot relief force coming to the aid of Fort Stanwix was ambushed and almost wiped out...fascinating, well documented, and occasionally thought provoking.ÓÑThe Journal of AmericaÕs Military Past
4 John R. Alden, A History of the American Revolution, p. 321. The booty also included Sir Johnson's trunk, which contained his clothing. Johnson's boots, moccasins, hat, jacket, sword, musket, uniform, and various personal items were ...
28-29; William H. Watkins, “Slavery in Herkimer County. African-Americans Were Here in the Valley from the Beginning” in Legacy. Annals of Herkimer County (N.Y.: Herkimer County Historical Society, Issue No. 3, 1990), pp. 5-7).
Combining strategic, tactical, and personal detail, historian Michael Logusz describes how the patriots of the newly organized Northern Army defeated England’s massive onslaught of 1777, all but ensuring America’s independence.
This book tells the complete story of these ambitious raids and counter-raids, giving in-depth detail on the forces, terrain, and tactics.
This new book is a historical account of the 14th Waffen-SS Galicia Division (also known as the 1st Ukrainian Division of the Ukrainian National Army). In 1943/1944 a determined group...
This book, Musket and Tomahawk, has been adapted from Parkman's more expansive work by the Leonaur Editors, especially for those students of military history-both serious and casual-who are primarily concerned with the war itself.
For summaries, see Ronda and Axtell, ed., Indian Missions, passim; Axtell, Invasion Within, 271–86; Wheeler, “Women and Christian Practice in a Mahican Village,” RAC 13 (2003): 27–67; Wyss, Writing Indians, 1–16; and Winiarski, ...
Gallay, Allan, ed. Colonial Wars of North America, 1512–1763. New York: Garland, 1996. Gates, Charles M. Five Fur Traders of the Northwest: Being the Narrative of Peter Pond and the Diaries of John Macdonell, Archibald N. McLeod, ...
Stevens, Sylvester K., Donald H. Kent, and Louis M. Waddell, eds. The Papers of Henry Bouquet. 6 vols. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and ... Colin Jones and Dror Wahrman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, 33–61.
... see Salem Crew Lists at Mystic Seaport, The Museum of America and The Sea; see also William Bentley's List of Parish Deaths. 3 Caroline H. King, When I Lived In Salem (Brattleboro, Vt.: Stephen Daye Press, 1937), 30.