The opening years of the French and Indian War were disastrous for the British. Fort William Henry on the southern shore of New York's Lake George was a key for

An illustrated history of the French siege of Fort William Henry in 1757 and the most infamous incident of the French-Indian War: the massacre that inspired the

Featuring information from a previously unpublished journal, an illustrated account of this strategically important battle in Canada. Louisbourg represented a m

Steele makes the case that the massacre at Fort William Henry was not a result of "homicidal" rage, as fictionalized in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the