Colonial America

La Guerre Sauvage

Dr. Kane

mkane2@albany.edu Social Science 116 | MWF 12:35-1:30 PM

Office Hrs: M 10:20 - 11:20 & F 1:30 - 3:30 Social Science 60S

Monday, November 13

coming up

• good news! - class cancelled Nov 17
• Locations paper - Nov 20
• Midterm II - Dec 1
• studyguide Nov 17
• Friday lunch keynote, "Related" Notable Women, Revolutionary Times
• extra credit by Dec 1 please!

today's class

• how to adapt to North America
• who's on what side?
• how are civilians treated?

Anderson, Pt 2

• how did Shirley and Johnson cause problems for each other's campaigns? 74-78
• why were the Acadians removed after the second siege of Louisbourg? 84-87
• how did Montcalm expect the siege of Fort Edward to proceed? 109-112

Braddock's Defeat

• lessons from Washington's defeat: bring everything!
• Braddock's Road & styles of warfare
• Washington's redemption & retreat on the road
• loss of Ohio Valley Indian allies

Albany Congress & Plan of Union 1754

• lessons of previous wars
• need for cooperation & protection from Indian allies
• a unified government?
• limited to northern & border states
• "narrowly provincial, mutually jealous, and suspicious of taxing authority"

Albany Plan of Union

Shirley vs. Johnson vs. Abercromby vs. Albany

• Shirley vs. Johnson - competition for white & Native troops, supplies, money
• Shirley & Johnson vs. Abercromby - regular Army discipline & order
• Albany - Montreal trade & suspicion of Dutch & Germans & Scots
• Albany & NY frontier - key to NYC & British North America

advantage & disadvantage

• French: professional military, sparse population
• British: numbers, ideological motivation
• French: control of key geography, no need to defend civilians
• British: vulnerable civilian population, long undefended frontier

Vaudreuil vs. Montcalm

• loss of Oswego/Ft. Ontario - 1756
• Vaudreuil's reliance on Indian allies vs. Montcalm's military honor
• Montcalm: defensive war of attrition, professional troops
• Vaudreuil: British numbers & naval strength

Fort William Henry

• results of Battle of Lake George - 1755
• anti-infantry, not anti-artillery design
• Montcalm's military honor - rejection of Indian diplomacy
• capture & killing of retreating British
• British outrage, Montcalm's refusal to use Indian allies

what kind of war is this?

• removal of the Acadians 1755 & 1758
• who can be British? anti-Catholic, anti-French
• are Indian allies controllable?
• who decides the course of the war