The cutting edge of culture: British soldiers encounter Native Americans in the French and Indian war

Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples 1600-1850

Volumn , Issue , 2020, Pages 123-148

  Way, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781003076711-6     Document Type: Chapter

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