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White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery And Vengeance in Colonial America
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About White Devil: A True Story Of War, Savagery And
Product Description "A fast-moving tale of courage, cruelty, hardship, and savagery."--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette In 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. 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. 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. Francis, slaughtering its sleeping inhabitants without mercy. A nightmarish retreat followed. When, after terrible hardships, the raiders finally returned to safety, they were hailed as heroes by the colonists, and their leader was immortalized as "the brave Major Rogers." But the Abenakis remembered Rogers differently: To them he was Wobomagonda--"White Devil." Review "Occasionally a book comes out that's written with color and flair, that's painstakingly researched, and that breaks new ground on an old subject ... This is just such a book." -- Military Book Club (USA) "Writing with verve and great narrative drive, Brumwell delivers a story full of adventure, brutality and moral ambiguity that readers will not want to put down. A splendid book." -- Professor Fred Anderson, author of Crucible of War "A fast moving tale of courage, cruelty, hardship and savagery set at a time when the Appalachian Mountains marked the boundary of the Wild West." - Pittsburg Post-Gazette "This is a fine book that offers a rewarding read to scholars and laypeople alike. It deserves a wide audience." - New York History "In the right hands truth, or at any rate fact, can be just as thrilling as fiction. Those hands here belong to Stephen Brumwell." - Washington Times About the Author Stephen Brumwell is a well-known expert on the British army in eighteenth-century America, and the author of Redcoats. He lives in the Netherlands.
