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| 245 Notes Preface and Acknowledgments 1. John Shy, “A New Look at the Colonial Militia,” in A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Strug­ gle for American Independence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976). 2. Shy, “A New Look at the Colonial Militia,” 29. 3. John Keegan, The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme (New York: Vintage, 1976); Sylvia Frey, The British Soldier in America: A Social History of Military Life in the Revolutionary Period (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981); J. A. Houlding, Fit For Service: The Training of the British Army, 1715–1795 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981); John Keegan and Richard Holmes, Soldiers: A History of Men in Battle (New York: Viking, 1986). 4. Richard H. Kohn, “The Social History of the American Soldier: A Review and Prospectus for Research” American Historical Review, 86 (1981), 564. Introduction 1. Goffstown was named for John Goffe, the leader of numerous scouts who became a lieutenant colonel in a provincial regiment during the last French and Indian war. Westbrook was named after Thomas Westbrook, who com­ manded the provincial forces in Maine during Dummer’s War. See William Howard Brown, Colonel John Goffe: Eighteenth Century New Hampshire (Manchester, NH: Lew A. Cummings, 1950); William Blake Trask, Letters Of Colonel Thomas Westbrook and Others Relative to Indian Affairs in Maine, 1722–1726 (Boston, 1901), 2. 2. For the full story of the Deerfield raid and its aftermath, see Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney, Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield (Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003) and Richard I. Melvoin, New England Outpost: War and Society in Colonial Deerfield (New York: Norton, 1989). 3. Quoted in Douglas Edward Leach, Roots of Conflict: British Armed Forces and Colonial Americans, 1677–1763 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986), 130–31. 4. I. K. Steele, Guerrillas and Grenadiers: The Struggle for Canada, 1689–1760 (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1969), 13. 5. Richard H. Marcus, “The Connecticut Valley: A Problem in Intercolonial Defense,” Military Affairs, 1969 33 (1), 230. 6. Jeremy Belknap, The History of New Hampshire (Reprint of 1831 edition, New York, 1970) Vol. 1, 296. 246 | Notes to the Introduction 7. John Fiske, New France and New England (Boston, 1902), 242. 8. Francis Parkman, Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV (Boston, 1896), 285. 9. John Ferling, A Wilderness of Miseries: War and Warriors in Early America (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980), 16. 10. Edward P. Hamilton, The French and Indian Wars: The Story of Battles and Forts in the Wilderness (New York: Doubleday, 1962), 93. 11. Guy Chet, Conquering the American Wilderness: The Triumph of European Warfare in the Colonial Northeast (Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003), 62. 12. Ibid., 100. 13. Jeremy Belknap, The History of New Hampshire, Vol. 1, 295. 14. Samuel Adams Drake, The Border Wars of New England, Commonly called King William ’s and Queen Anne’s Wars (1897, reprint of 1910 edition, Williamstown, MA: Corner House, 1973), 143. 15. Ibid., 55. 16. W. J. Eccles, The Canadian Frontier, 1534–1760 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1974), 11, 139. 17. Harold L. Peterson, Arms and Armor in Colonial America, 1526–1783 (New York: Bramhall House, 1956), 155. 18. John K. Mahon, “Anglo-American Methods of Indian Warfare, 1676–1794,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 45 (1958), 254. 19. Ibid., 274. 20. Steele, Guerrillas and Grenadiers, 132. 21. For references concerning the Americanization view, see John Morgan Dederer, War in America to 1775: Before Yankee Doodle (New York: NYU Press, 1990) and John Grenier , The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005). 22. Armstrong Starkey, European and Native American Warfare, 1675–1815 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 11. 23. Ibid., 44. 24. Chet, Conquering the American Wilderness, 3. 25. Ibid., 71. 26. John Ferling, Struggle for a Continent: The Wars of Early America (Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1993), 134. 27. John Shy, “A New Look at the Colonial Militia,” in A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence (London: Oxford University Press, 1976), 31. 28. See Lawrence Delbert Cress, Citizens in Arms: The Army and Militia in American Society to the War of 1812 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982), and Ferling, A Wilderness of Miseries. 29. Leach, Roots of Conflict, 132. 30. Ibid., 164. 31. Louis E. D. Forest, Louisbourg Journals: 1745 (New York, 1932), 198. 32. Quoted in...

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