With the disdainful words "a few acres of snow" Voltaire sarcastically commented on the battle for Canada, which was to go down in history as the French and Indian War and whose trigger was the British and French rivalry for supremacy in North America. In doing so, the French Enlightenment philosopher failed to recognise not only the deeper causes, but also the dimensions and significance of the conflict.
As so often in history, this great thinker tended here to "problem-shrink" in his explanation of a costly race between two great powers. For Canada, those "few acres of ice and snow", was the cause rather than the cause of the first "world war" that would help Britain to its eventual supremacy and at the same time contribute, albeit belatedly, to the birth of a new nation, namely the United States of America. This treatise describes in detail the conditions encountered, the processes of adaptation and the conduct of operations by the British armed forces, as well as the serious differences from the European warfare of the Seven Years' War.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Maninger, Stephan
Title
Für einige Morgen aus Eis und Schnee. Großbritanniens Kampf um Nordamerika 1754-1763
