NAVIES IN THE MOUNTAINS
The Battles on the Waters
of Lake Champlain and Lake George

VG/VG+. Jacket in mylar. Previous owner's small ink signature on title page, just below author's name; also some brief ink annotations at top and bottom of title page. No other marks in book. Apart from title page, an particularly clean, tight copy. Original '$6.50' price still on jacket flap. (NY: Oxford University Press, 1962). Maps, illustrations, colored maps on endpages, bibliography, index, 361 pages.

Harrison Bird has re-created the tension and the excitement of these battles. Drawing on diaries, military journals, and other contemporary sources, he has been able to make the reader feel that he, too, was a participant in these battles. Many of the leading figures in American colonial history have a part in the narrative: Samuel de Champlain, the great French explorer who gave his name to one of the lakes; Lord Jeffrey Amherst, architect of the British victory in 1760; Robert Rogers, whose immortal Rangers palyed a decisive role on the lakes; the Marquis de Montcalm, the great French general who commanded the entire region during the French & Indian War; Benedict Arnold, later a traitor, but first a resourceful commander for the American cause; and General "Johnny" Burgoyne, whose magnificent British army swept through the lakes in 1777, only to be destroyed at the Battle of Saratoga, immediately to the south. Many other commanders, little remembered in history, play equally important roles in Bird's colorful narrative.

This book is listed in Tyson & Gill's Annotated Bibliography of Marines in the American Revolution, with the following comment: "Recounts the role of the North Country in the Revolution, with considerable data on Arnold and his use of soldier-sailors and soldier-Marines on the lakes." Unfortunately, references to marines are not indexed.

OUT OF PRINT..

$45.00