Fred Anderson > Quotes

“Perhaps we would be able to understand the founding of the United States differently, I thought, if we explained it not only in terms of political conflict within the Anglo-American community or the working out of Revolutionary ideals, but as a consequence of the forty-year-long effort to subject the Ohio Country, and with it the rest of the Transappalachian west, to imperial control.”
― Fred Anderson, Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766

“Tanaghrisson stepped up to where Jumonville lay. “Tu n’es pas encore mort, mon père,” he said; Thou art not yet dead, my father. He raised his hatchet and sank it in the ensign’s head, striking until he had shattered the cranium. Then he reached into the skull, pulled out a handful of viscous tissue, and washed his hands in Jumonville’s brain.”
― Fred Anderson, Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766