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White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery, and Vengeance in Colonial America
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by Stephen Brumwell

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In vivid prose, Brumwell explores the truth behind the legend of a controversial and dramatic episode from America's violent past, memorably depicted in James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans."

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"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. 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. 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.
On the morning of October 4, 1759, Rogers and his men surprised the Abenaki Indian village of St. Francis, slaughtering its sleeping inhabitants without mercy. A nightmarish retreat followed. 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."

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FOR THE INHABITANTS OF THE New Hampshire outpost known simply as Fort Number Four, the early summer of 1754 was a tense time.

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  • Title White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery, and Vengeance in Colonial America
  • Author Stephen Brumwell
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grand Central Publishing, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2006-03-07
  • Features Annotated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780306814730 / 0306814730
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Cultural Region: French
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.26

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  • Kliatt, 09/01/2006, Page 42

About the author

Stephen Brumwell is a well-known expert on the British army in eighteenth-century America, and the author of Redcoats. He lives in the Netherlands.
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