![]() ![]() ![]() Although the Native Americans were "the real losers" in the war for their continent, they offered formidable resistance to a developing European hegemony. Borneman connects that complex conflict in North America with events in the Caribbean, Europe and Asia. Edwin Braddock escalated into what legitimately merits designation as the First World War. What began in the Ohio Valley in 1755 as the local defeat of a small force under Gen. ) argues that the French and Indian War not only made Britain master of North America but created an empire that dominated the world for two centuries. Drawing on a broad spectrum of primary and secondary sources, Borneman ( 1812: The War That Forged a Nation (2000), the definitive academic history of the mid–18th-century French and Indian War and its long-term consequences for America and the world. Borneman offers an excellent general-audience version of Fred Anderson's Crucible of War ![]()
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