From that initial engagement, a great war for empire in North America began, a war one might add that soon spiraled out of control into a global conflict. Professor Anderson’s account begins in what is now western Pennsylvania, when a small group of Virginians and Indians under the leadership of the young George Washington were defeated in humiliating fashion by the French forces holding the fort at what is today Pittsburgh. Crucible of War is one of the most important historical studies to appear in the past two decades and as such it has a great deal to say about the current world as well as the distant past. In the larger, global sense it determined that English rather than French would prove to be the common language of the twenty-first century. Professor Anderson’s study of the Seven Years’ War (known to Americans as the French and Indian Wars) examines the great war that determined the fate of North America and eventually led to the creation of the United States.
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