[PDF] Connecticut Unscathed eBook

Author : Jason W. Warren
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0806147725

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The conflict that historians have called King Philip’s War still ranks as one of the bloodiest per capita in American history. An Indian coalition ravaged much of New England, killing six hundred colonial fighting men (not including their Indian allies), obliterating seventeen white towns, and damaging more than fifty settlements. The version of these events that has come down to us focuses on Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay—the colonies whose commentators dominated the storytelling. But because Connecticut lacked a chronicler, its experience has gone largely untold. As Jason W. Warren makes clear in Connecticut Unscathed, this imbalance has generated an incomplete narrative of the war. Dubbed King Philip’s War after the Wampanoag architect of the hostilities, the conflict, Warren asserts, should more properly be called the Great Narragansett War, broadening its context in time and place and indicating the critical role of the Narragansetts, the largest tribe in southern New England. With this perspective, Warren revises a key chapter in colonial history. In contrast to its sister colonies, Connecticut emerged from the war relatively unharmed. The colony’s comparatively moderate Indian policies made possible an effective alliance with the Mohegans and Pequots. These Indian allies proved crucial to the colony’s war effort, Warren contends, and at the same time denied the enemy extra manpower and intelligence regarding the surrounding terrain and colonial troop movements. And when Connecticut became the primary target of hostile Indian forces—especially the powerful Narragansetts—the colony’s military prowess and its enlightened treatment of Indians allowed it to persevere. Connecticut’s experience, properly understood, affords a new perspective on the Great Narragansett War—and a reevaluation of its place in the conflict between the Narragansetts and the Mohegans and the Pequots of Connecticut, and in American history.

Author : Jason W. Warren
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 31,13 MB
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0806147717

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The conflict that historians have called King Philip’s War still ranks as one of the bloodiest per capita in American history. An Indian coalition ravaged much of New England, killing six hundred colonial fighting men (not including their Indian allies), obliterating seventeen white towns, and damaging more than fifty settlements. The version of these events that has come down to us focuses on Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay—the colonies whose commentators dominated the storytelling. But because Connecticut lacked a chronicler, its experience has gone largely untold. As Jason W. Warren makes clear in Connecticut Unscathed, this imbalance has generated an incomplete narrative of the war. Dubbed King Philip’s War after the Wampanoag architect of the hostilities, the conflict, Warren asserts, should more properly be called the Great Narragansett War, broadening its context in time and place and indicating the critical role of the Narragansetts, the largest tribe in southern New England. With this perspective, Warren revises a key chapter in colonial history. In contrast to its sister colonies, Connecticut emerged from the war relatively unharmed. The colony’s comparatively moderate Indian policies made possible an effective alliance with the Mohegans and Pequots. These Indian allies proved crucial to the colony’s war effort, Warren contends, and at the same time denied the enemy extra manpower and intelligence regarding the surrounding terrain and colonial troop movements. And when Connecticut became the primary target of hostile Indian forces—especially the powerful Narragansetts—the colony’s military prowess and its enlightened treatment of Indians allowed it to persevere. Connecticut’s experience, properly understood, affords a new perspective on the Great Narragansett War—and a reevaluation of its place in the conflict between the Narragansetts and the Mohegans and the Pequots of Connecticut, and in American history.

Author : Jason W. Warren
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Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,61 MB
Release : 2021-07-20
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ISBN : 9780806175621

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The conflict that historians have called King Philip's War still ranks as one of the bloodiest per capita in American history. An Indian coalition ravaged much of New England, killing six hundred colonial fighting men (not including their Indian allies), obliterating seventeen white towns, and damaging more than fifty settlements. The version of these events that has come down to us focuses on Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay--the colonies whose commentators dominated the storytelling. But because Connecticut lacked a chronicler, its experience has gone largely untold. As Jason W. Warren makes clear in Connecticut Unscathed, this imbalance has generated an incomplete narrative of the war. Dubbed King Philip's War after the Wampanoag architect of the hostilities, the conflict, Warren asserts, should more properly be called the Great Narragansett War, broadening its context in time and place and indicating the critical role of the Narragansetts, the largest tribe in southern New England. With this perspective, Warren revises a key chapter in colonial history. In contrast to its sister colonies, Connecticut emerged from the war relatively unharmed. The colony's comparatively moderate Indian policies made possible an effective alliance with the Mohegans and Pequots. These Indian allies proved crucial to the colony's war effort, Warren contends, and at the same time denied the enemy extra manpower and intelligence regarding the surrounding terrain and colonial troop movements. And when Connecticut became the primary target of hostile Indian forces--especially the powerful Narragansetts--the colony's military prowess and its enlightened treatment of Indians allowed it to persevere. Connecticut's experience, properly understood, affords a new perspective on the Great Narragansett War--and a reevaluation of its place in the conflict between the Narragansetts and the Mohegans and the Pequots of Connecticut, and in American history.

Author : Jason William Warren
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Page : pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 2011
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Abstract: King Philip's War (1675-1676) was one of the bloodiest per capita in American history. Although hostile native groups damaged much of New England, Connecticut emerged unscathed from the conflict. Connecticut's role has been obscured by historians' focus on the disasters in the other colonies as well as a misplaced emphasis on "King Philip," a chief sachem of the Wampanoag groups. Although Philip formed the initial hostile coalition and served as an important leader, he was later overshadowed by other sachems of stronger native groups such as the Narragansetts. Viewing the conflict through the lens of a 'Great Narragansett War' brings Connecticut's role more clearly into focus, and indeed enables a more accurate narrative for the conflict. Connecticut achieved success where other colonies failed by establishing a policy of moderation towards the native groups living within its borders. This relationship set the stage for successful military operations. Local native groups, whether allied or neutral did not assist hostile Indians, denying them the critical intelligence necessary to coordinate attacks on Connecticut towns. The English colonists convinced allied Mohegan, Pequot, and Western Niantic warriors to support their military operations, giving Connecticut forces a decisive advantage in the field. Connecticut's native population chose to remain neutral or to actively assist the colony's English colonists, a point often obscured by historians. A small number of Connecticut colonists adopted Indian tactical methods, and conducted successful raids that disrupted the hostile coalition's war effort. King Philip's initial coalition did not target Connecticut immediately and then only as a secondary objective. When the Narragansetts dominated the war effort later in the war and sought to attack the colony, Connecticut forces killed the tribe's primary war leader. Moreover, the colony had reconstituted its defenses upon the trace of its former frontier fortifications. Although enemy groups operated throughout the colony, by utilizing elements of European-style fortresses that had emerged from the Military Revolution of Early Modern Europe, Connecticut became a hardened target invulnerable to traditional Native American martial skills. The population density and settlement pattern of Connecticut's colonists also aided in the defense of the colony, rendering more effective reconstituted defenses in key population areas. The colony abandoned outlying settlements, which were indefensible. Connecticut's War Council also more effectively managed the war than the other New England colonies. With historians focused on the terrifying events in Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth and Rhode Island, historians have relegated to the margins and distorted Connecticut's success story. Both the colony's English and native populations, however, emerged victorious, defeating and disrupting the hostile coalition as well as remaining unscathed compared to the remainder of New England. This dissertation refocuses Connecticut's role in the Great Narragansett War---the latest episode in near-continuous Indian against Indian warfare in southern New England since the arrival of Europeans---and its victory over the hostile native groups. Further, it calls into question traditional interpretations of warfare in early colonial America, and proposes a new paradigm for considering local relations between colonists and Indians as a major factor in successful war fighting.

Author : Jason William Warren
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File Size : 45,1 MB
Release : 2009
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Abstract: King Philip's War (1675-1676) was one of the bloodiest in American history. One New England colony, however, emerged unscathed from the conflict. Connecticut maximized three important cultural-diplomatic and military components that set it apart from its sister colonies. Connecticut had a relatively humane policy towards the local, unaligned Native American tribes that dissuaded them from joining Philip's hostile confederacy. The colony employed Mohegan, Pequot, and Western Niantic warriors in its military operations, giving it a decisive advantage. Finally, Connecticut effectively utilized European-new-style fortresses that had emerged from the Military Revolution of early modern Europe. Connecticut's native population also chose to remain neutral or to actively assist the colony's English colonists, a point often obscured by the colonists' successors. With historians focused on the terrifying events in Massachusetts.

Author : Walter W. Woodward
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1493047035

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Connecticut State Historian Walter Woodward helps us understand how people and events in Connecticut’s past played crucial roles in forming the culture and character of Connecticut today. Woodward, a gifted story-teller, brings the history we thought we knew to life in new ways, from the nearly forgotten early presence of the Dutch, to the time when Connecticut was New England’s fiercest prosecutor of witches, the decades when Connecticans were rapidly leaving the state, and the years when Irish immigrants were hurrying into it. Whether it’s his investigation into the unusually rough justice meted out to Revolutionary War hero Nathan Hale, or a peek into Mark Twain’s smoking habits, Creating Connecticut will leave you thinking about our state’s past––and its future––in a whole new way.

Author : Mark Allen Baker
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,53 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1467126985

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With the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on December 7, 1941, and the United States' entry into World War II, our nation turned to Connecticut--as it did during World War I--for munitions, clothing, and other goods. And Connecticut answered the call: Manchester Mills increased silk production, Waterbury brass producers altered their manufacturing lines, and Bridgeport's Remington Arms--which had produced 50 percent of the US Army's small arms cartridges in World War I--increased its mass production capabilities. By the time Electric Boat, Hamilton Propellers, Pratt & Whitney, and many other Connecticut companies tallied up their production back in 1945, it amounted to over $8 billion in war contracts.

Author : John Banks
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 2015-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1625853114

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Over fifty thousand Connecticut soldiers served in the Union army during the Civil War, yet their stories are nearly forgotten today. Among the regiments that served, at least forty sets of brothers perished from battlefield wounds or disease. Little known is the 16th Connecticut chaplain who, as prisoner of war, boldly disregarded a Rebel commander's order forbidding him to pray aloud for President Lincoln. Then there is the story of the 7th Connecticut private who murdered a fellow soldier in the heat of battle and believed the man's ghost returned to torment him. Seven soldiers from Connecticut tragically drowned two weeks after the war officially ended when their ship collided with another vessel on the Potomac. Join author John Banks as he shines a light on many of these forgotten Connecticut Yankees.

Author : Gregg Mangan
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 14,40 MB
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1625851952

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Connecticut's character runs much deeper than breathtaking fall foliage and quaint coastal towns. One day at a time, author Gregg Mangan chronicles fascinating episodes in state history, from the earliest European settlements to the modern era. After a lengthy debate, the state senate voted in favor of "Yankee Doodle" as the official state song on March 16, 1978. Bridgeport's General Electric Company completed work on the bazooka on June 14, 1942. On the morning of December 4, 1891, the only four-train collision in American history occurred at the railroad station in East Thompson. Each date on the calendar holds a nugget of knowledge in this celebration of Constitution State history.