War among the forests, mountains and lakes of North America Among British Army historians the reputation of Sir John Fortescue stands virtually without equal. His comprehensive fourteen volume history is a work of unparalleled achievement in its field. Fortescue combines thorough source material research with insightful academic observation of the conduct of the campaigns he describes and of the decisions, errors and strategic and tactical options of their principal protagonists. The Leonaur editors have carefully selected passages from Fortescue"s magnum opus to create a series of books, each focusing on a specific war or campaign. It might rightly be claimed that the Seven Years" War was the first "world war." Certainly it defined the world as we know it today. It underpinned the expansion the British Empire and ensured that the English language-rather than French-would become the world"s dominant language. The war as it was fought in North America, involving native...