Colonial Military

The conflict that historians have called King Philip’s War still ranks as one of the bloodiest per capita in American history. An Indian coalition ravaged much of New England, killing 600 colonial fighting men (not including their Indian allies), obliterating 17 white towns, and damaging more than 50 settlements. The version of these events that has come down to us focuses on Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay - the colonies whose commentators dominated the storytelling. But because Connecticut lacked a chronicler, its experience has gone largely untold.

Heroes Fall, Chaos Reigns. The war slips away from the allied cause. As the Horde invades farther into Erlon, General Duroc plans his next attack on the Vendome Road. Marshal Lauriston's last army awaits him. Elisa Lannes fights on for Erlon and finds strength in the knowledge that her father has finally joined the war effort. With victory in the east, the emperor can march to rejoin his Erlonians. But first, Elisa, Lauriston, and the army in the west must survive the coming Kurakin onslaught. The Horde marches. Chaos Reigns. Can the empire be saved? Empire of War is the third book in the ...

Second in the PEACE COMPANY novel series by Roland J. Green. For fans of Starship Troopers, Battlestar Galactica and Warhammer. Peace Force hits the jungle of planet Greenhouse...to stop an inter-species bloodbath. Trial by fire...in the Mountains of Steel! Megatrouble is brewing on the planetoid hellhole they call Greenhouse. Two rival nations, long-separated by 700 kilometers of vermin-infested jungle, are about to be connected by a mountain railroad—and a bloodbath is predicted. Terrorist attacks and racial hatred already threaten to sever this desperately needed lifeline. This is a ...

Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin are known to all; men like Morgan, Greene, and Wayne are less familiar. Yet the dreams of the politicians and theorists became real only because fighting men were willing to take on the grim, risky, brutal work of war. The soldiers of the American Revolution were a diverse lot: merchants and mechanics, farmers and fishermen, paragons and drunkards. Most were ardent amateurs.

In the eighth book in the Treegate Series on American History, the author takes readers back to the beginning—to the Revolutionary War—with another epic adventure with a new young hero. In this classic coming-of-age story set during the Revolutionary War, 16-year-old Matt Tyler (a naïve cobbler’s apprentice) unwittingly aids a rebel spy and is forced to slip behind British enemy lines to survive—only to be captured by the Continental Army. His only hope to make it home alive is to find a strength he never knew he had. Along the way, Matt finds himself caught up in major events of ...

The opening years of the French and Indian War were disastrous for the British. Hindered by quarrelsome provincial councils, incompetent generals, and the redcoats' inability to adapt to wilderness warfare, Britain was losing the war. Learning that most of Britain's military resources were allocated to Louisbourg, the French launched a campaign along the weakened frontier. French Commander Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and his American Indian allies laid siege to Fort William Henry; Monro could not hold out and was forced to surrender.

Third in the PEACE COMPANY novel series by Roland J. Green. For fans of Starship Troopers, Battlestar Galactica and Warhammer. It’s the 24th century. God isn’t dead yet. And Hell is just another word for war... Religious fanaticism threatens final destruction for the planet Zauberberg. The Church battles the Anti-Clericals for internal control of Triple Federation territory. Overhead, the unholy light of the Thorshammer meteor shower begins to shine—disrupting global communications. And in the north country, the Game Master has trained a band of guerrilla zealots to take bloody ...

The French and Indian War was the world's first truly global conflict. When the French lost to the British in 1763, they lost their North American empire along with most of their colonies in the Caribbean, India, and West Africa. In The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France, the only comprehensive account from the French perspective, William R. Nester explains how and why the French were defeated.

*** A William Allen White Children’s Book Award Nominee *** Peter Treegate has never been stronger, braver, or better with a knife—but he still has to learn humility if he’s going to save himself from the hangman’s noose… The fourth book in the Treegate Series follows Peter Treegate and the sea captain Peace of God Manly through the final years of the Revolutionary War as Peter—now a grown man—leads a band of Carolina mountain men though a series brutal engagements fought in the southern colonies from 1780 to the final surrender of the British at Yorktown in August 1781. ...

War Rages Onward. Erlon won an epic victory at the Battle of Neuse and turned the tide of the war for the falling empire. But as winter gives way to spring, the fierce Kurakin Horde marches once again. Elisa Lannes is thrust into the heart of another sprawling campaign with Marshal Lauriston and the last Erlonian generals fighting at her side. She steps bravely into the next battle, but unknown powers and devious enemies scheme against her and Erlon's brave soldiers. General Duroc and the Horde army approaches. The allies are ready. But will old conflicts and ancient evils prove too strong ...

Warning: For Mature Adult Audiences. Contains wording and actions some may deem offensive. Sexually explicit content. MF Leader LarIS needs to find help for his people. Though they have females, they have not been successful with their breeding. The women have more miscarriages than full term births. His medics are stumped. After many covert missions to collect Intel, he discovers that Katiera and Kiljor are forming an alliance. With this alliance they are offering aid to one another in seeking to solve the breeding issues. When he agrees to meet with them, he learns the other two nations ...

Winner of the Thomas Alva Edison Annual Children’s Book Award for Excellence in Portraying America’s Past The second book in the Treegate series picks up right where John Treegate’s Musket left off—following both the events of the American War for Independence and 16-year-old Peter’s clash of loyalty to his real father, John Treegate, and to his foster father, the Maclaren of Spey (a Scottish clansman). Peter’s two fathers are both jealous and distrustful of each other as well as worlds apart in thought and philosophy, and Peter struggles to be true to both men while also trying...

Onward. Unto the End. The war for the Continent twists once again. Elisa, Lannes, Lauriston, and the last Erlonian warriors chase what they believe to be the remains of the Kurakin Horde across their homeland. But what awaits them over the horizon isn't what it seems. As new and terrible foes appear out of the darkness, two old friends must find a way to save their empire. As gods and generals collide, Elisa must face new fears and lead her people. If they fail, the ancient evil that stalks them will consume everything they fights for. The epic story comes to an end. Who lives, who dies, ...

Two seafaring tales filled with gripping action, tests of the human spirit, and life lessons from the author of The Mouse that Roared. WASHINGTON'S GUNPOWDER The Colonial Army led by George Washington has laid siege to the British forces in Boston at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, but they will have to withdraw unless they get more supplies—especially gunpowder. This exciting historical adventure tells the tale of George Royall (a young, reluctant lieutenant in the Colonial Navy) who is charged with sailing a secret cargo of gunpowder to Boston—a daring mission that involves ...

Designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in their subject field, Barron’s EZ-101 Study Keys give you a valuable overview of your college-level course. In American History to 1877, all key topics are covered, from the first Americans through the post–Civil War Reconstruction era. Also covered are brief key quotations and notes on major figures such as Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, John Marshall, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, and many more.

*** An American Library Association Notable Children’s Book *** The year is 1777, and America is in danger of losing the Revolutionary War because of the British blockade… Benjamin Franklin is sent to Paris to seek an alliance with France, but how will he ever be able to convince the French that the American battle is worth joining—especially when the French are still licking their wounds from their own loss to the mighty British Navy? Franklin’s only chance to prove the British Navy is not invincible—and that the American colonists are determined to fight to the end—is to put ...

The American Colonies, 1765. As the Stamp Act dissent marks the first organized resistance to English rule, someone is kidnapping and killing members of the Iroquois Nation. Asked by an elder to investigate, Scottish exile Duncan McCallum soon uncovers a network of secret runners supporting the nascent “committees of correspondence", engaged in the political dissent fomenting across colonial borders. But as Duncan follows the trail further, it leads to his capture.

Warning: For Mature Adult Audiences. Contains language and actions some may deem offensive. M/F AshOR finally has command of his own ship, and he’s been given an important mission to head up. He has to locate a rogue Morin ship that managed to get through the wormhole, before it reaches Earth. He expects to face battle, and he’s used to fighting. What he doesn’t expect is the trail of horror and destruction left by the Morins. Stopping his people’s enemy is his top priority, and he doesn’t need the complication of a stunning beauty that won’t listen to anything he has to say. In...

In 1919 the Treaty of Versailles stripped Germany of its overseas colonies. This sudden transition to a post-colonial nation left the men and women invested in German imperialism to rebuild their status on the international stage. Remnants of an earlier era, these Kolonialdeutsche (Colonial Germans) exploited any opportunities they could to recover, renovate, and market their understandings of German and European colonial aims in order to reestablish themselves as "experts" and "fellow civilizers" in discourses on nationalism and imperialism.

Among the pressing concerns of Americans in the first century of nationhood were day-to-day survival, political harmony, exploration of the continent, foreign policy, and - fixed deeply in the collective consciousness - hell and eternal damnation. The fear of fire and brimstone and the worm that never dies exerted a profound and lasting influence on Americans' ideas about themselves, their neighbors, and the rest of the world.