John Bradstreet's Raid, 1758 Audiobook by Ian Macpherson McCulloch

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Title: John Bradstreet's Raid, 1758
Subtitle: A Riverine Operation of the French and Indian War (Campaigns and Commanders Series, Book 74)
Series: #18 in Campaigns and Commanders
Categories: America, History, Military, United States of America
Author: Ian Macpherson McCulloch
Narrator: Douglas R. Pratt
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Release date: 02-23-2023
Language: English

Summary:
A year after John Bradstreet’s raid of 1758—the first and largest British American riverine raid mounted during the Seven Years’ War (known in North America as the French and Indian War)—Benjamin Franklin hailed it as one of the great “American” victories of the war. Bradstreet heartily agreed, and soon enough, his own official account was adopted by Francis Parkman and other early historians. In this first comprehensive analysis of Bradstreet’s raid, Ian Macpherson McCulloch uses never-before-seen materials and a new interpretive approach to dispel many of the myths that have grown up around the operation. The result is a closely observed, deeply researched revisionist microhistory—the first unvarnished, balanced account of a critical moment in early American military history. Examined within the context of campaign planning and the friction among commanders in the war’s first three years, the raid looks markedly different than Bradstreet’s heroic portrayal. The operation was carried out principally by American colonial soldiers, and McCulloch lets many of the provincial participants give voice to their own experiences. He consults little-known French documents that give Bradstreet’s opponents’ side of the story, as well as supporting material such as orders of battle, meteorological data, and overviews of captured ships.