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The Last Invasion of Canada
Author | : Hereward Senior |
Publsiher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1991-07-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781550020854 |
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In the turbulent decade which produced the Canadian Confederation of 1867, a group of seasoned veterans of the American Civil War turned their attention to the conquest of Canada. They were Irish-American revolutionaries — unique because they fought under their own flag. They were know as the Fenians and they believed that the first step on the road to the liberation of Ireland was to invade Canada. The Last Invasion of Canada vividly recaptures the drama of the decade. It recounts the fledgling nation's rag-tag, but patiotic, defence against an ememy committed to a glorious cause, but with only scatterered resources. It is a story of courage, espionage and petty crime, and of mismatched motivations and goals.
The Last Invasion of Canada The Fenian Raids 1866 1870
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Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:1091221142 |
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In the turbulent decade which produced the Canadian Confederation of 1867, a group of seasoned veterans of the American Civil War turned their attention to the conquest of Canada. They were Irish-American revolutionaries — unique because they fought under their own flag. They were know as the Fenians and they believed that the first step on the road to the liberation of Ireland was to invade Canada. The Last Invasion of Canada vividly recaptures the drama of the decade. It recounts the fledgling nation's rag-tag, but patriotic, defence against an enemy committed to a glorious cause, but with only scattered resources. It is a story of courage, espionage and petty crime, and of mismatched motivations and goals.
The Last Invasion of Canada
Author | : Hereward Senior |
Publsiher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1991-07-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781554883318 |
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In the turbulent decade which produced the Canadian Confederation of 1867, a group of seasoned veterans of the American Civil War turned their attention to the conquest of Canada. They were Irish-American revolutionaries — unique because they fought under their own flag. They were know as the Fenians and they believed that the first step on the road to the liberation of Ireland was to invade Canada. The Last Invasion of Canada vividly recaptures the drama of the decade. It recounts the fledgling nation's rag-tag, but patriotic, defence against an enemy committed to a glorious cause, but with only scattered resources. It is a story of courage, espionage and petty crime, and of mismatched motivations and goals.
The Invasion of Canada in 1775
Author | : Henry Caldwell |
Publsiher | : Printed at the Morning chronicle office |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : Canadian Invasion, 1775-1776 |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044015479843 |
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A letter dated June 15, 1776, and supposed to be addressed to Gen. James Murray.
Ridgeway
Author | : Peter Vronsky |
Publsiher | : Penguin Canada |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780143182849 |
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In this groundbreaking narrative, historian, investigative journalist and filmmaker Peter Vronsky uncovers the hidden history of the Battle of Ridgeway and explores its significance to Canada’s nation-building myths and traditions. On June 1, 1866, more than 1,000 Fenian insurgents invaded Canada across the Niagara River from Buffalo, N.Y. The Fenians were mostly battle-hardened Civil War veterans; the Canadian troops sent to fight them came from a generation that had not seen combat at home for more than 30 years. Led by inexperienced upper-class officers, the volunteer soldiers were mostly young, some as young as 15 years old. They were farm boys, shopkeepers, apprentices, schoolteachers, store clerks and two rifle companies of University of Toronto students hastily called out from their final exams. Many had not fired live rounds from their rifles even once. When they fought the Fenians near the village of Ridgeway the next day, a single rifle company of 28 students took the brunt of a counter-attack by 800 insurgents and suffered the most killed and wounded. The events of June 2, 1866, were covered up by the Macdonald government. The story was falsified so thoroughly that most Canadians today have not heard of the first modern battle in which Canadians died.
The Invasion of Canada
Author | : Ronald J. Dale |
Publsiher | : James Lorimer & Company |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2011-04-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781552777848 |
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On June 18, 1812, the United States declared war on Great Britain--the most powerful nation in the world. Britain was in the midst of a long and perilous struggle with Napoleon's France, convincing President Thomas Jefferson that taking Canada would be "a mere matter of marching."Jefferson was terribly wrong. In this book Ron Dale traces the course of this gruelling two-year conflict, bringing to life people and engagements that have become legendary in Canada: General Brock's stand at Queenston Heights, Tecumseh's death at Moraviantown, Laura Secord's epic trek through the woods. He also recovers some equally important, but more obscure results of the conflict, including how the Bank of Nova Scotia was created with privateering prizes from the war. Illustrated throughout with full-colour paintings and modern photography, The Invasion of Canada is a readable, appealing guide to a war that both sides won.
The Invasion of Canada
Author | : Pierre Berton |
Publsiher | : Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2011-02-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780385673600 |
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To America's leaders in 1812, an invasion of Canada seemed to be "a mere matter of marching," as Thomas Jefferson confidently predicted. How could a nation of 8 million fail to subdue a struggling colony of 300,000? Yet, when the campaign of 1812 ended, the only Americans left on Canadian soil were prisoners of war. Three American armies had been forced to surrender, and the British were in control of all of Michigan Territory and much of Indiana and Ohio. In this remarkable account of the war's first year and the events that led up to it, Pierre Berton transforms history into an engrossing narrative that reads like a fast-paced novel. Drawing on personal memoirs and diaries as well as official dispatches, the author has been able to get inside the characters of the men who fought the war — the common soldiers as well as the generals, the bureaucrats and the profiteers, the traitors and the loyalists. Berton believes that if there had been no war, most of Ontario would probably be American today; and if the war had been lost by the British, all of Canada would now be part of the United States. But the War of 1812, or more properly the myth of the war, served to give the new settlers a sense of community and set them on a different course from that of their neighbours.
The Invasion of Canada 1812 1813
Author | : Pierre Berton |
Publsiher | : McClelland & Stewart |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105035948905 |
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