"Indian Wars of the American South is a comprehensive introduction to the conflicts that ensued between Native Americans and their European encroachers from the earliest recorded skirmishes to the last battles only three years before the commencement of the American Civil War. Beginning with the Powhatan Wars of 1610-1646 and concluding with the Third Seminole War of 1855-1858, author Michael Ports has assembled all the pertinent facts related to the scores of battles or campaigns that arose as clashes of civilizations on the advancing frontier." --
W. H. Ashley, with two keelboats of supplies, are attacked by Arikara Indians but escape. A number of Smith's men are killed, including Reed Gibson and John Gardiner. Hugh Glass writes Gardiner's parents, “the deth of yr Son whbefell at ...
Robert Dinwiddie, the determined sixty-year-old governor of Virginia, saw which way the wind was blowing, and in October 1753, sent a twenty-one-year-old militia major named George Washington to the recently begun Fort Le Boeuf (now ...
... War. A form of warfare in which attackers used stealth to surprise their enemies. Employed largely by Native Americans and later adopted by Europeans in North America, the skulking way of war involved ambushes and raids on small ...
Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890: Conquering the Southern Plains is the third in a planned five-volume series that will tell the saga of the military struggle for the American West in the words of the soldiers, noncombatants, and ...
This history book provides information on the land of the Indians, the tribes, and wars fought between the local tribes and pilgrims of French and English descent for the period of one century.
Greed, misunderstanding, and resentment characterized the relationship between early white settlers moving west and the Native American peoples of the Great Plains.
North American Indian Wars
The St. Augustine Herald of the 13th inst. has the following statement of POWELL, the Seminole Indian Chief. As he is the head and front of that tribe in their late and present depredations and murder, this account of him may not prove ...
Volume 3. Queen Anne's War. Lovewell's War. Governor Shirley's War. French and Indian War.
This is a concise telling of the American Indian Wars, from the earliest Beaver Wars in the seventeenth century between French, Dutch, and British settlers and their Native American allies to the tragic confrontation at Wounded Knee Creek ...