This is a very neat old book about Major Robert Stobo.s contributions to the French and Indian War. This book was published in 1965 (second printing) by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston; The Riverside Press, Cambridge. The book measures 6 inches by 8 5/8 inches and contains xii, 421 pages. The dust jacket signs of wear with chips and rips along the edges. The dust jacket is in fair to good condition. The cloth cover has a gilt pictorial on the front and the title in gilt on the spine. The cover shows minor signs of wear, hardly worth mentioning. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The pages show no signs of rips. The name and address of a previous owner is "rubber stamped" on the half title page. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this book is very good.

Contents:

1. Return of a Hero
2. The Journey Begins
3. An Army Marches
4. Alexandria to Wills Creek
5. To the Great Meadows
6. Advance and Retreat
7. The Battle
8. Fort Duquesne
9. Aftermath
10. Quebec
11. Defeat and Discovery
12. The Trial
13. In Prison
14. Preparations for Escape
15. Flight Down the River
16. The Battle of Chaleur Bay
17. With the Mighty General
18. Quebec to Crown Pint to Williamsburg
19. The Fall of New France
20. The English Captain
21. The Last Chapter

Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Appendix I
Appendix II
Appendix III
Notes and Sources
Bibliography
Index

Excerpt . Dust jacket:
Robert Stobo enters the pages of history on horseback, at the head of a company of provincial Virginia troops marching as reinforcements into Colonel George Washington.s encampment on the western frontier. He was involved in three famous battles of the French and Indian War. He served as an espionage agent for Washington behind French lines. Taken hostage, he was sentenced to death after a show trial that caused international controversy. He twice escaped from a Quebec prison, and twice was recaptured. He escaped a third time to lead a small band through 350 miles of enemy territory. He was hailed as a hero in Williamsburg and London. He was twice captured by pirates. He consorted on intimate terms with the great figures of his time.
End excerpt

Bottom: Early portrait of Colonel Washington was painted by Charles Willson Peale around 1772.

Right: This is the scale map of Fort Duquesne that Robert Stobo smuggled out of the fort by the Indian Moses the Song.

Bottom Left: James Murray, General Wolfe.s third brigadier at Quebec, defended the captured city against French counterattack, later led Captain Stobo and his regiment up the St. Lawrence to complete a pincer movement on Montreal.

Right: Officer and privates of the Fifteenth Regiment of Foot, in which Robert Stobo was commissioned to a captain, are shown at the siege of Louisbourg in 1758.

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