Product Description

During the brutal and destructive King Philip's War, the New England Indians combined new European weaponry with their traditional use of stealth, surprise, and mobility.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #317178 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Review

""Brilliantly combine[s] technical expertise and historical research... Lavishly illustrated. Malone presents overwhelming evidence of the skills New England Indians brought to the acquisition of European military technology, despite the efforts of both the home and colonial governments to prevent such technology transfer." -- Technology and Culture

"A thorough, clear, and provocative work of scholarship that deserves the attention of anyone interested in the intersection of technology, culture, and warfare in early America." -- Journal of American History

Review

"A fascinating excursion into a little-explored area of early American history. General readers as well as specialists are bound to find the work instructive. It is a gem." -- Merritt Roe Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Customer Reviews

Very highly recommended military history reading
In The Skulking Way Of War: Technology And Tactics Among The New England Indians, Patrick Malone (Senior Lecturer in the American Civilization department of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island) surveys the weaponry and tactics among the Native Americans of New England and how they changed after the arrival of the European settlers and the introduction of gunpowder. Borrowing and modifying the flintlock musket for their own use, Native American fighters developed superior tactics and became a deadly force in forest warfare. During King Philip's War (1675-1677), Native American groups wrought intense destruction upon European (largely British) settler's colonies, forcing the whites to adopt the same mode of forest combat. These new tactics would re-emerge during the Revolutionary War against Britain and in subsequent American wars down to this very day, altering combat throughout the world. The Skulking Way Of War is very highly recommended reading for students of American history, military history, and Native American studies.

The Skulking Way
This book really is a must for any one who reads military tactics or combat. The Skulking Way of War is the assigned term to the Native American's form of warefare. Adopting it for themselves, the colonists of the early new world were able to win both the French and Indian war and eventually their war for Independence. For anyone intrested in the recent trend of movies, such as The Patriot, or even Last of Mohicans, this book outlines the emergence of the gun in both the colonists and the Native American's way of life and how both groups changed their tactics over time

It's A Good Book
If you're a film buff of Last of The Mohican's or most recently The Patriot, this is a book to read. Not for the thrilling fast paced adventure story that it is not... but it gives you reasons why the colonists won the war against the Indians. Building on this new war technique that the colonists established, the skulking way, they were able to defeat the British in this same manner. It's a must read for any military historians as well, mainly because it outlines the history of the colonists war stradegy.