The Last Stand Of The Raven Clan A Story Of Imperial Ambition Native Resistance And How The Tlingitrussian War Shaped A Continent Gerald Easter Mara Vorhees by Gerald Easter & Mara Vorhees instant download after payment.

**A dynamic history of the Battle of Sitka that recognizes the vital importance of the Tlingit people, their fight against Imperial Russia, and how it changed the fate of the North America.**
"If the long-term plans of Peter the Great had been realized, then California never would have become a Spanish colony," asserted the head of the Russian-American Company. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Russia was a rising power in North America. The Tsar's empire extended across the Bering Sea, through the Aleutians and Kodiak Island, and down the Alaskan panhandle. The objective of this imperialist project was to corner the lucrative North Pacific fur trade and colonize the American coastline all the way to San Francisco Bay. The audacious scheme was moving apace until the Russians were finally confronted and stalled on the battlefield.
When Russia went to war in America, the fate of a continent was at stake. Yet it was neither the Old-World rivals Spain and Britain...