When Fate Summons - A Biography of General Richard Butler, 1743-1791

Klappentext Offers the first new study of a pivotal character in colonial, revolutionary and federal relations with the Amerindian tribes of western Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and the old Northwest. Butler, an Irish born merchant ,trader and soldier on the uneasy borderlands of European settlement and tribal territory, made his way to influence via a keen linguistic ability, strong sympathies for native peoples (prior to the revolution) and an instinctual military ability.

Product details

• Authors: Harry Ward, Harry Ward, Professor Emeritus Harry M (University of Richmond) Ward
• Publisher: Academica Press, LLC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2013
• EAN: 9781936320844
• ISBN: 978-1-936320-84-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies