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The first volume covers the years 1731 to 1750, and the topics include Shirley's early political appointments, the building of forts on the frontier, raising of troops, defense of Nova Scotia, prisoner exchanges, movements of the French, the expedition against Louisbourg, plans for an expedition against Crown Point, and more. Much of the correspondence during this period is between Shirley and Benning Wentworth, William Pepperrell, the Duke of Newcastle, and George Clinton. The correspondence in the second volume, 1750-1761, is especially fascinating. Most of these letters were written in 1755-1756, the critical early years of the final French and Indian War, while Shirley was Military Commander of America. 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The research was over; it was time to write the book.\" On the afternoon of March 13, 1758, in the snow-covered Adirondack Mountains near Fort Ticonderoga, the famous Captain Robert Rogers and his New England Rangers lay waiting in ambush. They never expected the punishing defeat they were about to suffer at the hands of the capable and underrated French partisan leader, Langis (Langy). This original work tells the story of the Battle on Snowshoes from a new perspective. The author, an experienced Adirondack hunting guide and a French partisan re-enactor, based this book on field experience as well as book research. Bob Bearor trekked over the sites in period clothing and equipment, made countless camps throughout the hills (even in minus-20-degree weather), searched out travel routes, and endeavored to substantiate the times and conditions described in participants' journal entries. He even relived the day of the battle exactly as recorded in Rogers' own journal. 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Habitually without funds, supplies, experienced military leadership, or even a motivated body of men willing to defend their homes, the Virginia Colony struggled desperately to protect its western frontier from Indian incursions and partisan raids meant to wipe out the English presence in the Ohio River and Allegheny Mountain regions and secure a French monopoly on Indian trade.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProfessor Hayes Baker-Crothers examines the role of the Virginia Colony at the outbreak of war and analyzes Virginia's contributions to the hard-won English victory, hampered for years by the legislative incompetence, military inactivity, and self-interest inherent in the British Colonial system. 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The burning of the Cherokee villages, and the eventual peace that was made, is documented here. The movements of many regiments and ships can be easily followed, and the sorrowful plight of slaves on many of the ships is described with a sense of immediacy that cannot be captured in retrospective histories. The full name plus subject index allows the reader to find soldiers, Indian tribes, ships' names, and regiments. 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