The Seven Years’ War (known in North America as the French and Indian War) was truly a world war. Second, it is one of the more important books to read if you want to learn why – in 1775 – the American colonies lurched into open revolt.Īt nearly 750 pages of text, this is an ambitious doorstopper, but Anderson earns every page. First, it is the best book available on the Seven Years’ War, which pitted the empires of Great Britain and France (not to mention Spain, Prussia, Austria, and more) in a battle royale that spanned two oceans and three continents, and which killed hundreds of thousands of people. Then he reached into the skull, pulled out a handful of viscous tissue, and washed his hands in Jumonville’s brain…”įred Anderson’s Crucible of War is two things at once.
He raised his hatchet and sank it into the ensign’s head, striking until he had shattered the cranium. ‘Tu n’es pas encore mort, mon père’, he said Thou art not yet dead, my father. The letter he carried would make everything clear…As withdrew, Tanaghrisson stepped up to where Jumonville lay. Through a translator, he tried to make it known that he had come in peace, as an emissary with a message summoning the English to withdraw from the possessions of…Louis XV. One of the wounded, a thirty-five-year-old ensign named Joseph Coulon de Villiers de Jumonville, identified himself as the detachment’s commander. Around the rim of the hollow three of Washington’s troops were wounded, and one lay dead at its bottom the French had suffered fourteen casualties.
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