The Tuscarora War
Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies

A brief and bloody war. La Vere's 2013 "The Tuscarora War" tells the story of 1711's brutal war between Tuscoarora Indians and North Carolinian colonists. The book chronicles several of the major players from both sides and details the troubles the North Carolina had establishing itself in the early......more

The topic of this work is a virtually unknown event in American history. As a graduate level history degree holder, who specializes in Native American conflicts and history, I had only a passing understanding of this war. La Vere clearly has done a great deal of research into the minutiae of this ev......more

La Vere’s excellent history of the war between native Americans and European settlers in colonial North Carolina explains in detail the political and cultural conflict between the two parties culminating in the Tuscarora War (1711-1715). North Carolina was one of the poorest colonies of British Amer......more

Remember Fort Neoheroka!!! I now live in North Carolina not far from the scene of the events described in this history. How did I know nothing about this before? In 1711, in response to continued depredations of the European colonists, the Tuscarora Indians made war. And it was brutal as only a colon......more

Excellent account of the social and political situation of North and South Carolina in the early 17th century that describes the complicated interaction of the character and personal circumstances of major players and the web of shifting relationships between various groups of settlers, their magist......more