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Lädt ... Northern Armageddon: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Making of the American Revolution (2017. Auflage)von D. Peter MacLeod (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Good grief. I would never have finished this audiobook if it weren't required. It's one thing to read a very detailed, dry history of a semi-obscure event, but listening to one without any expression or dramatization is another. ( ) The Battle of Quebec In this historical recount of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, military historican D. Peter MacLeod takes the reader on a day by day, hour by hour, retelling of one of the defining battles of the Seven Years War between the English and the French. I'll describe what I like most about the book first, then go on to some of its weaknesses. MacLeod has really reached deep into the archives transcribing and interpreting the battle from the perspective of some of its real-life participants. The incredible detail is in itself a remarkable accomplishment. Intricate details of key players including Wolfe and Montcalm. MacLeod accurately captures the savagery of the scorched earth policy used by the British in attempt to smoke out the French. The battle on the plains, named after Abraham Martin dit l'Ecossais, is the climax of the book with the siege of Quebec and the aftermath that followed. There are about two dozen or so illustrations and paintings of the battle and the key players, all done in color. MacLeod bookends the book contextualizing the overall historical significance of the battle within the larger war and the events that followed it. A few minor points of contention that I have. Firstly, MacLeod's writing is rather disjointed and he rarely transitions his points choosing rather to write in short paragraphs and short chapters. It makes it very difficult to have a continuous narrative that really captures the reader. Secondly, at times, MacLeod takes a few liberties in hyperbolizing some of his points in an attempt to make sections of his narrative sound more important than they really were, the title of the book is an example of this kind of exaggeration. Overall, I recommend "Northern Armageddon" especially if you enjoy reading detailed accounts of war and battle or if you enjoy reading about Canadian history. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Examines "the eighteenth-century Battle of the Plains of Abraham, the pivotal battle in the Seven Years' War (1754-1763) to win control of the trans-Appalachian region of North America, a battle consisting of the British and American colonists on one side and the French and the Iroquois Confederacy on the other, and leading directly to the colonial War of Independence and the creation of Canada"--Dust jacket flap.
"A huge, ambitious re-creation of the eighteenth-century Battle of the Plains of Abraham, the pivotal battle in the Seven Years' War (1754-1763) to win control of the trans-Appalachian region of North America, a battle consisting of the British and American colonists on one side and the French and the Iroquois Confederacy on the other, and leading directly to the colonial War of Independence and the creation of Canada. It took five years of warfare fought on three continents--Europe, Asia, and North America--to bring the forces arrayed against one another--Britain, Prussia, and Hanover against France, Austria, Sweden, Saxony, Russia, and Spain (Churchill called it "the first world war")--to the plateau outside Quebec City, on September 13, 1759, on fields owned a century before by a fisherman named Abraham Martin ... It was the final battle of a three-month siege by the British Army and Navy of Quebec, the walled city that controlled access to the St. Lawrence River and the continent's entire network of waterways; a battle with the British utilizing 15,000 soldiers, employing 186 ships, with hundreds of colonists aboard British warships and transports from Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, with France sending in a mere 400 reinforcements in addition to its 3,500 soldiers. The battle on the Plains of Abraham lasted twenty minutes, and at its finish the course of a continent was changed forever ... New military tactics were used for the first time against standard European formations ... Generals Wolfe and Montcalm each died of gunshot wounds ... France surrendered Quebec to the British, setting the course for the future of Canada, paving the way for the signing of the Treaty of Paris that gave the British control of North America east of the Mississippi, and forcing France to relinquish its claims on New Orleans and to give the lands west of the Mississippi to Spain for surrendering Florida to the British. After the decisive battle, Britain's maritime and colonial supremacy was assured, its hold on the thirteen American colonies tightened. The American participation in ousting the French as a North American power spurred the confidence of the people of New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, who began to agitate for independence from Great Britain. Sixteen years later, France, still bitter over the loss of most of its colonial empire, intervened on behalf of the patriots in the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). In Northern Armageddon, Peter MacLeod, using original research--diaries, journals, letters, and firsthand accounts--and bringing to bear all of his extensive knowledge and grasp of warfare and colonial North American history, tells the epic story on a human scale. He writes of the British at Quebec through the eyes of a master's mate on one of the ships embroiled in the battle. And from the French perspective, as the British bombarded Quebec, of four residents of the city--a priest, a clerk, a nun, and a notary--caught in the crossfire. MacLeod gives us as well the large-scale ramifications of this clash of armies, not only on the shape of North America, but on the history of Europe itself."--Publisher's description. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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