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  title info:
    title: To risk it all
    sub title: General Forbes, the capture of Fort Duquesne, and the course of empire in the Ohio Country
  name:
    name part: McConnell, Michael N. (Michael Norman)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: pau
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 390 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: General John Forbes's campaign against Fort Duquesne was the largest overland expedition during the Seven Years' War in America. While most histories of the time period include the Forbes Campaign as an aside, McConnell documents how and why Forbes and his army succeeded, and what his success meant to the subsequent history of the mid-Atlantic colonies, native inhabitants of the Ohio Country and the empire he represented. A close look at the Forbes Campaign and its personnel reveals much about both British relations with native peoples and the nature of Britain's American empire during a time of stress. Unlike other campaigns, this one was composed largely of colonial, not professional British, troops. In addition, individual colonies negotiated their role in the campaign and frequently placed their own local interests ahead of those of the empire as a whole. The campaign thus suggests the limits of imperial power and how Britain's hold over its American frontiers was, at best, tenuous and helped lead to an eventual breakdown of empire in the 1760s and 1770s.
  table of contents: Introduction : An Empire at War -- New York and Philadelphia, Winter-Spring 1758 -- Friends and Enemies, Winter-Spring 1758 -- Preparations, May 1758 -- Moving West, June 1758 -- Raystown, July 1758 -- Forbes's Road, July-August 1758 -- Loyalhannon and Fort Duquesne, September 1758 -- Loyalhannon, October 1758 -- Easton and the Kuskuskies, October-November 1758 -- Loyalhannon and Fort Duquesne, October-November 1758 -- November 1758-March 1759.
  note: Michael N. McConnell.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: n-us-pa
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Forbes, John
      name part: 1707-1759
  subject:
    topic: Forbes Expedition against Fort Duquesne, Pa., 1758
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: French and Indian War, 1754-1763
  subject:
    geographic: Fort Duquesne (Pa.)
  classification: E199 .M118 2020
  classification: 973.2/6
  identifier: 9780822946328
  identifier: 0822946327
  identifier: 9780822987734
  identifier: 2020015643
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200406
    record change date: 20210125091605.0
    record identifier: in00004355933