The Forgotten History of America:Little Known Conflicts of Lasting Importance from the Earliest Colonists to the Eve of the Revolution

by: Cormac O’Brien (Author)

Publisher: Crestline Books

Publication Date: 2013/7/26

Language: English

Print Length: 304 pages

ISBN-10: 0785830588

ISBN-13: 9780785830580

Book Description

This book depicts a continent emerging as both a bloody battleground between Native Americans and Europeans and a place where alien cultures began to mesh.  This is the history they left out of the textbooks–thanks to Cormac O’Brien, the forgotten history of America will be forgotten no more.From the founding of the first permanent European settlement in North America (1565) to the bloody chaos of the British frontier in Pontiac’s War (1763), this vividly written narrative spans the two centuries of American history before the Revolutionary War.  These lesser known conflicts of the past are brought brilliantly to life, showing us a world of heroism, brutality, and tenacity–and also showing us how deep the roots of our own time truly run.

About the Author

This book depicts a continent emerging as both a bloody battleground between Native Americans and Europeans and a place where alien cultures began to mesh.  This is the history they left out of the textbooks–thanks to Cormac O’Brien, the forgotten history of America will be forgotten no more.From the founding of the first permanent European settlement in North America (1565) to the bloody chaos of the British frontier in Pontiac’s War (1763), this vividly written narrative spans the two centuries of American history before the Revolutionary War.  These lesser known conflicts of the past are brought brilliantly to life, showing us a world of heroism, brutality, and tenacity–and also showing us how deep the roots of our own time truly run. 

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