American Political History

In 1759, the year the British Empire could not stop winning, the largest prize of all sat on a cliff in the middle of North America: Quebec, the heart of New France, the fortress every earlier English...

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The French and Indian War began at the forks of the Ohio in 1754, and in 1758 it came home to where it started. This is the story of how the British finally took the forks — not in one great battle, b...

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By 1758 the British had been losing the war in America for three years. Then William Pitt took hold of it in London — and instead of bullying the colonies as his predecessor had, he paid them, respect...

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By 1757 the most powerful empire on earth was losing — beaten up one side of the continent and down the other by a smaller, poorer enemy with a better general. This is the story of the Marquis de Mont...

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In 1755 the most powerful native confederacy on the continent was pulled into a war that was not its own — and discovered that the balance it had worked for a hundred years was beginning to fail. This...

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On July 9, 1755, the largest army ever assembled in North America crossed the Monongahela River in perfect order, ten miles from its objective and certain of victory. Three hours later, two-thirds of ...

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In the summer of 1755, the largest army ever assembled in North America began cutting a road through the Appalachian wilderness toward a French fort at the Forks of the Ohio — and carried west, in its...

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In the spring of 1754, a twenty-two-year-old Virginia lieutenant colonel named George Washington marched a few hundred men into the Ohio wilderness to make good his colony’s claim to a fort the French...

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