[Physicist]

In history-challenged America, the French and Indian War is that brief grade school lesson between the pilgrims landing on Plymouth Rock and the Shot Heard `Round the World.

Americans are generally ignorant about history, true, but it's hard to call the French and Indian War an especially neglected chapter. Montcalm and Wolfe (the climactic volume in the monumental France and England in North America) is considered to be the greatest work by the greatest American historian, Francis Parkman ("The American Gibbon").

[TexasTransplant]

 Montcalm and Wolfe (the climactic volume in the monumental France and England in North America) is considered to be the greatest work by the greatest American historian, Francis Parkman ("The American Gibbon").

 

You must have been home schooled, never heard of him.

[TexasTransplant]

Just re-read the article and enjoyed it more the second time around, sometimes just just changing the angle of approach can make things so much more interesting.