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French And Indian War

Scott Haefner of Old Fort Johnson on Historians Podcast

August 10, 2018 by Bob Cudmore 1 Comment

The His torians LogoThis week on The Historians Podcast, site manager Scott Haefner talks about Old Fort Johnson, the 1749 limestone house that British Indian agent William Johnson built on the Mohawk River in colonial New York. It was fortified for protection during the French and Indian Wars. [Read more…] about Scott Haefner of Old Fort Johnson on Historians Podcast

Filed Under: History Tagged With: French And Indian War, Military History, Mohawk River, Old Fort Johnson, Podcasts

Comments Sought On Lake George Battlefield Management

April 27, 2018 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

The Adirondack Park Agency (APA) and the Lake George Park Commission (LGPC) has announced they are holding a joint public comment period to solicit comments for the Lake George Battlefield Park Unit Management Plan.

Public comment will be accepted until May 3, 2018. [Read more…] about Comments Sought On Lake George Battlefield Management

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Battle of Lake George, French And Indian War, Lake George

Fort Ti History Educators Conference Planned For May

April 2, 2018 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

fort ticonderoga“The Great Wars: The French & Indian War and the First World War” will be the focus of the Tenth Annual History Conference for Educators to be held on Friday, May 18, 2018 at Fort Ticonderoga.

Sessions focused on the French & Indian War (known as the Seven Years’ War in Europe) and World War I will answer the question on how global conflict affects local communities. Participants will learn about the scope and impact of “Great Wars” on society in general through the study of primary accounts. [Read more…] about Fort Ti History Educators Conference Planned For May

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Events, History Tagged With: Conferences, Education, Fort Ticonderoga, French And Indian War, Social Studies, World War One

1763-1848: The Age of Revolutions

December 27, 2017 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben_franklins_worldBetween 1763 and 1848, an age of revolutions took place in North America, South America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe. But why is it that we only seem to remember the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Haitian Revolution?

Given that the American Revolution took place before all of these other revolutions, what was its role in influencing this larger “Age of Revolutions?” Did it influence this larger period?

Ben Franklin’s World: A Podcast About Early American History’s exploration of what the American Revolution looked like within the larger period known as the “Age of Revolutions” continues as Janet Polasky, a professor of history at the University of New Hampshire and the author of Revolutions Without Borders: The Call of Liberty in the Atlantic World (Yale University Press, 2015), guides us through the period to explore answers to these questions. [Read more…] about 1763-1848: The Age of Revolutions

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: American Revolution, Anti-Rent War, French And Indian War, French Revolution, Haitian Revolution, Podcasts, Revolutions of 1848, Seven Years War

French & Indian War Bayonet Discovered In The Adirondacks

August 2, 2017 by Glenn Pearsall 1 Comment

Loon Lake - Johnsburg Area in 1805Last fall a rusted old military bayonet was unearthed on private property just east of Loon Lake in Warren County. It was taken to David Starbuck, a noted local historical and industrial archeologist who has written extensively on Fort William Henry on Lake George.

Coincidentally, on that day Jesse Zuccaro, a student who has focused his studies on early bayonets, happened to be visiting Starbuck. Together they inspected this new find. After careful examination they concluded it was French in design and probably dated between 1728 and the 1740s. Twenty thousand of these bayonets were made and sent to New France prior to the American Revolution. [Read more…] about French & Indian War Bayonet Discovered In The Adirondacks

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Adirondack Park, Battle of Lake George, French And Indian War, King George’s War, Loon Lake, Military History, Warren County

Montcalm’s Cross: Report from Carillon Reenactment Weekend

July 30, 2017 by Michael Kleen 2 Comments

fort ti carillon reenactment On July 22 and 23, Fort Ticonderoga commemorated the 259th anniversary of the 1758 Battle of Carillon with a series of events called “Montcalm’s Cross,” named after French General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm.

The Battle of Carillon was fought on July 8, 1758, during the French and Indian War. It was the bloodiest battle of the Seven Years War fought in North America, with over 3,000 casualties. French losses were about 400, while more than 2,000 were British. [Read more…] about Montcalm’s Cross: Report from Carillon Reenactment Weekend

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Fort Ticonderoga, French And Indian War, Military History

1757: What Adirondack History Might Have Been

May 18, 2017 by Lawrence P. Gooley Leave a Comment

“These are mere deserts on both sides of the river St. Lawrence, uninhabited by beast or bird on account of the severe colds which reign there.”—Samuel de Champlain.

“One cannot see a more savage country, and no part of the earth is more uninhabitable.” —Pierre Charlevoix, 1756. And about winters in the north: “It is then a melancholy thing not to be able to go out of doors, unless you are muffled up with furs like the bears…. What can anyone think, where the very bears dare not show their face to the weather for six months in the year!”

The last quotation (1767) is from John Mitchell, who cited the above comments by Charlevoix and Champlain in assessing New England, New York, and Quebec during discussions about the future of the American colonies. His writings at that time supported a solution Mitchell had proposed a decade earlier, one that would have drastically altered today’s map of the Americas and seriously revised the history of the Adirondack region. [Read more…] about 1757: What Adirondack History Might Have Been

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Adirondack Park, Adirondacks, French And Indian War, milhist, Military History

Fort Ticonderoga War College Registration Open

February 20, 2017 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

War College 2016Registration is now open for Fort Ticonderoga’s Twenty-Second Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War, May 19 to 21, 2017.

With a panel of distinguished historians from across the United States, this seminar focuses on the Seven Years’ War in North America, also known as the French & Indian War. [Read more…] about Fort Ticonderoga War College Registration Open

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Events, History Tagged With: Conferences, Fort Ticonderoga, French And Indian War, Military History

Battle of Lake George Book Talk, Signing Feb 4th

February 1, 2017 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

battle-of-lake-george-bookSchenectady County Historical Society will host a book talk and signing with historian William Griffith on Saturday, February 4th at 2 pm at the Mabee Farm Historic Site.

In his book The Battle of Lake George (2016) Griffith tells the story of the first major British battlefield victory of the French and Indian War.

In late summer in Lake George, 1755, a bloody conflict for control of Lake George and its access to New York’s interior took place between the British and French forces. Against all odds, British commander William Johnson rallied his men through the barrage of enemy fire to send the French retreating north to Ticonderoga. The stage was set for one of the most contested regions throughout the rest of the conflict. [Read more…] about Battle of Lake George Book Talk, Signing Feb 4th

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Books, Events, History Tagged With: French And Indian War, Lake George, Mabee Farm Historic Site, Schenectady County Historical Society

Disease & The Seven Years’ War

January 18, 2017 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben_franklins_worldWhen we think of the French and Indian, or Seven Years’ War, we often think of battles: The Monongahela, Ticonderoga, Québec. Yet, wars aren’t just about battles. They’re about people and governments too.

In this episode of Ben Franklin’s World: A Podcast About Early American History, we explore a very different aspect of the French and Indian or Seven Years’ War. We explore the war through the lens of disease and medicine and how disease prompted the British government to take steps to keep its soldiers healthy.

Our guide for this investigation is Erica Charters, an Associate Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford and author of Disease, War, and the Imperial State: The Welfare of British Armed Forces during the Seven Years’ War (University of Chicago Press, 2014). You can listen to the podcast here: www.benfranklinsworld.com/116

[Read more…] about Disease & The Seven Years’ War

Filed Under: History Tagged With: French And Indian War, Military History, Podcasts

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