The name of the book originates from the Abenaki name for Rogers after the attack on the Indian village of St Francis. White Devil explains the genesis of savage attacks and retribution.
This book is an excellent companion to Fred Anderson’s Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766. There were plenty of points of conflict but also many of peaceful interactions. But much of the book deals with the history of Native American and European, primarily English, settler interactions. White Devil explains the genesis of sa This book is nominally about Roger’s Rangers and Major Robert Rogers, the man who lead many ranging” missions. This book is nominally about Roger’s Rangers and Major Robert Rogers, the man who lead many ranging” missions. 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.". Francis, slaughtering its sleeping inhabitants without mercy. On the morning of October 4, 1759, Rogers and his men surprised the Abenaki Indian village of St. 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. 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.
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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 o "A fast-moving tale of courage, cruelty, hardship, and savagery."- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "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.
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