Wolf of the Plains (Conqueror): Book 1

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The first indisputable evidence of maize cultivation on the Great Plains is about 900 AD. [28] The earliest farmers, the Southern Plains villagers were probably Caddoan speakers, the ancestors of the Wichita, Pawnee, and Arikara of today. Plains farmers developed short-season and drought resistant varieties of food plants. They did not use irrigation but were adept at water harvesting and siting their fields to receive the maximum benefit of limited rainfall. The Hidatsa and Mandan of North Dakota cultivated maize at the northern limit of its range. [29]

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It was the Comanche, coming to the attention of the Spanish in New Mexico in 1706, who first realized the potential of the horse. As nomads, hunters, and pastoralists, well supplied with horses, they swept most of the mixed-economy Apaches from the plains and by the 1730s were dominant in the Great Plains south of the Arkansas River. [11] :3–4(835–836) The success of the Comanche encouraged other Indian tribes to adopt a similar lifestyle. The southern Plains Indians acquired vast numbers of horses. By the 19th century, Comanche and Kiowa families owned an average of 35 horses and mules each – and only six or seven were necessary for transport and war. The horses extracted a toll on the environment as well as required labor to care for the herd. Formerly egalitarian societies became more divided by wealth with a negative impact on the role of women. The richest men would have several wives and captives who would help manage their possessions, especially horses. [12] Gray wolves ( Canis lupus) migrated from Eurasia into North America 70,000–23,000 years ago [10] [11] and gave rise to at least two morphologically and genetically distinct groups. One group is represented by the extinct Beringian wolf [10] [12] and the other by the modern populations. [10]Mech, L. David (1966). The Wolves of Isle Royale. Fauna Series 7. Fauna of the National Parks of the United States. pp.75–76. ISBN 978-1-4102-0249-9. Armed conflicts intensified in the late 19th century between Native American nations on the plains and the U.S. government, through what were called generally the Indian Wars. [23] Notable conflicts in this period include the Dakota War, Great Sioux War, Snake War and Colorado War. Comanche power peaked in the 1840s when they conducted large-scale raids hundreds of miles into Mexico proper, while also warring against the Anglo-Americans and Tejanos who had settled in independent Texas. Expressing the frontier anti-Indian sentiment, Theodore Roosevelt believed the Indians were destined to vanish under the pressure of white civilization, stating in an 1886 lecture: The author is best known as the author of the Emperor series of books based on the life of Julius Caesar. The first book was devoted to the future dictator’s boyhood and youth. This has become a recurring theme with Iggulden; how a boy becomes a man, and in particular how he becomes a ruthless world conqueror. According to a myth, Wolfe sang the soldier song How Stands the Glass Around the night before the battle. Due to that myth, said song is also called General Wolfe’s Song. [73] See also [ edit ]

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The Dead Hand - the huge marble hand near the hole in the ground located southeast of the Fens Inquisition Camp. Nayak, S.; Shah, S.; Borah, J. (2015). "Going for the kill: an observation of wolf-hyaena interaction in Kailadevi Wildlife Sanctuary, Rajasthan, India". Canid Biology & Conservation. 18 (7): 27–29. In Canada, 50,000–60,000 wolves live in 80% of their historical range, making Canada an important stronghold for the species. [39] Under Canadian law, First Nations people can hunt wolves without restrictions, but others must acquire licenses for the hunting and trapping seasons. As many as 4,000 wolves may be harvested in Canada each year. [130] The wolf is a protected species in national parks under the Canada National Parks Act. [131] In Alaska, 7,000–11,000 wolves are found on 85% of the state's 1,517,733km 2 (586,000sqmi) area. Wolves may be hunted or trapped with a license; around 1,200 wolves are harvested annually. [132]French forces engaged in the battle were commanded by Major General Louis Joseph de Saint Véran, Marquis de Montcalm commanding appx. 1,900 regulars, 1,500 militia and natives, and 4 field guns. [32] [33] a b "1759-09-13 – Battle of Québec – Project Seven Years War". www.kronoskaf.com. Archived from the original on 25 September 2020 . Retrieved 25 February 2020. Jimenez, Michael D.; Asher, Valpa J.; Bergman, Carita; Bangs, Edward E.; Woodruff, Susannah P. (2008). "Gray Wolves, Canis lupus, Killed by Cougars, Puma concolor, and a Grizzly Bear, Ursus arctos, in Montana, Alberta, and Wyoming". The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 122: 76. doi: 10.22621/cfn.v122i1.550. Miklosi, Adam (2015). Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition. Oxford Biology (2ed.). Oxford University Press. pp.106–107. ISBN 978-0199545667.

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Drass, Richard R. (Feb 2008). "Corn, Beans and Bison: Cultivated Plants and Changing Economies of the Late Prehistoric Villagers on the Plains of Oklahoma and Northwest Texas". Plains Anthropologist. 53 (205): 12. doi: 10.1179/pan.2008.003. JSTOR 25670974. S2CID 162889821 . Retrieved 8 September 2020. The Raven - a statue of Dirthamen located in the courtyard of the citadel (near the wooden shed below). Wolves spend about 8 or 10 hours every day moving through their home range. They will rarely stay in one place for too long of a period. They mark their habitat with urine as well as a scent that comes from glands in their tails. These markers are to let other wolves know that such territory has already been claimed.The French held their fire and both armies waited for two or three minutes. The French finally fired two disorganized volleys. [50] a b Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S.; Gopalakrishan, Shyam; Vieira, Filipe G.; Samaniego Castruita, Jose A.; Raundrup, Katrine; Heide Jørgensen, Mads Peter; Meldgaard, Morten; Petersen, Bent; Sicheritz-Ponten, Thomas; Mikkelsen, Johan Brus; Marquard-Petersen, Ulf; Dietz, Rune; Sonne, Christian; Dalén, Love; Bachmann, Lutz; Wiig, Øystein; Hansen, Anders J.; Gilbert, M. Thomas P. (2018). "Population genomics of grey wolves and wolf-like canids in North America". PLOS Genetics. 14 (11): e1007745. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007745. PMC 6231604. PMID 30419012. Molnar, B.; Fattebert, J.; Palme, R.; Ciucci, P.; Betschart, B.; Smith, D. W.; Diehl, P. (2015). "Environmental and intrinsic correlates of stress in free-ranging wolves". PLOS ONE. 10 (9). e0137378. Bibcode: 2015PLoSO..1037378M. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137378. PMC 4580640. PMID 26398784. Bergström, Anders; Frantz, Laurent; Schmidt, Ryan; Ersmark, Erik; Lebrasseur, Ophelie; Girdland-Flink, Linus; Lin, Audrey T.; Storå, Jan; Sjögren, Karl-Göran; Anthony, David; Antipina, Ekaterina; Amiri, Sarieh; Bar-Oz, Guy; Bazaliiskii, Vladimir I.; Bulatović, Jelena; Brown, Dorcas; Carmagnini, Alberto; Davy, Tom; Fedorov, Sergey; Fiore, Ivana; Fulton, Deirdre; Germonpré, Mietje; Haile, James; Irving-Pease, Evan K.; Jamieson, Alexandra; Janssens, Luc; Kirillova, Irina; Horwitz, Liora Kolska; Kuzmanovic-Cvetković, Julka; Kuzmin, Yaroslav; Losey, Robert J.; Dizdar, Daria Ložnjak; Mashkour, Marjan; Novak, Mario; Onar, Vedat; Orton, David; Pasaric, Maja; Radivojevic, Miljana; Rajkovic, Dragana; Roberts, Benjamin; Ryan, Hannah; Sablin, Mikhail; Shidlovskiy, Fedor; Stojanovic, Ivana; Tagliacozzo, Antonio; Trantalidou, Katerina; Ullén, Inga; Villaluenga, Aritza; Wapnish, Paula; Dobney, Keith; Götherström, Anders; Linderholm, Anna; Dalén, Love; Pinhasi, Ron; Larson, Greger; Skoglund, Pontus (2020). "Origins and genetic legacy of prehistoric dogs". Science. 370 (6516): 557–564. doi: 10.1126/science.aba9572. PMC 7116352. PMID 33122379. S2CID 225956269.

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The culmination of a three-month siege by the British, the battle lasted about an hour. British troops commanded by General James Wolfe successfully resisted the column advance of French troops and Canadian militia under General Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm, employing new tactics that proved extremely effective against standard military formations used in most large European conflicts. Both generals were mortally wounded during the battle; Wolfe died of gunshot wounds just as the French began to retreat and Montcalm died the next morning after receiving a musket ball wound just below his ribs. In the wake of the battle, the French evacuated the city. Zuehlke, Mark (2001), The Canadian military atlas: the Nation's battlefields from the French and Indian Wars to Kosovo, Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, ISBN 0-7737-3289-6