french and indian war, 1755-1763

Letters, diaries, memoirs, interviews, ballads, newspaper articles, and speeches depict life and events in the American colonies in the second half of the eighteenth century, with an emphasis on the years of the Revolutionary War.

Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman's daughter, thirteen-year-old Zettie records the events of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the New World where they are inadvertently drawn into the hostilities of the ongoing French and Indian War and, eventually, find a new direction to their lives.

A tale of adventure, treachery, and friendship in the battle-torn wilderness of eighteenth-century upstate New York.

Natty Bumppo, now forty, helps defend a small outpost on Lake Ontario from the Iroquois.

Kidnapped by raiding Abnaki Indians during the French and Indian War, seventeen-year-old Sarah must make a choice between life in slavery or death by torture.

In 1755, as the French and Indian War begins, ten-year-old Regina is kidnapped by Indians in western Pennsylvania, and she must struggle to hold on to memories of her earlier life as she grows up under the name of Tskinnak and starts to become Indian herself.

Hawkeye, a young frontier scout, and Chingachgook, a Mohican Indian, form an unlikely friendship as they attempt to guide two sisters through hostile country in search of their father during the French and Indian War.

Describes the expansion of the British colonies into French territory in the 1750s and the struggle for survival among the Iroquois Confederation that led to the French and Indian War, and examines how that conflict overturned the balance of power on two continents.

Presents an introduction to the study of the French and Indian War, providing a narrative overview of the course of the conflict, featuring five analytical essays, and including a chronology, biographical sketches, excerpts from primary source documents, and an annotated bibliography.

A Mohican brave struggles to protect two English girls from an evil Huron during the French and Indian War in upstate New York.