{"product_id":"9783849674878","title":"Historic Highways of America: Volume 4: Braddock's Road (And three relative Papers)","description":"A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion. Comprising the following volumes: \u003cp\u003ePaths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals. \u003cbr\u003eIndian Thoroughfares. \u003cbr\u003eWashington's Road: The First Chapter of the Old French War. \u003cbr\u003eBraddock's Road. \u003cbr\u003eThe Old Glade (Forbes's) Road. \u003cbr\u003eBoone's Wilderness Road. \u003cbr\u003ePortage Paths: The Keys of the Continent. \u003cbr\u003eMilitary Roads of the Mississippi Basin. \u003cbr\u003eWaterways of Westward Expansion. \u003cbr\u003eThe Cumberland Road. \u003cbr\u003ePioneer Roads of America (two volumes). \u003cbr\u003eThe Great American Canals (two volumes). \u003cbr\u003eThe Future of Road-Making in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe French were invariably defeated by the British on this continent because the latter overcame natural obstacles which the former blindly trusted as insurmountable. The French made a league with the Alleghenies - and Washington and Braddock and Forbes conquered the Alleghenies; the French, later, blindly trusted the crags at Louisbourg and Quebec - and the dauntless Wolfe, in both instances, accomplished the seemingly impossible. The building of Braddock's Road in 1755 across the Alleghenies was the first significant token in the West of the British grit which finally overcame. Few roads ever cost so much, ever amounted to so little at first, and then finally played so important a part in the development of any continent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Historic Highways of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47038211752176,"sku":"9783849674878","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783849674878_p0.jpg?v=1763696899","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783849674878","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}