188Īcclaimed military historian Terry Copp, founder and director of the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, has led a team of enthusiastic students and Centre workers to produce 1812: A Guide to the War and Its Legacy. Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies (WLU Press). Terry Copp, Matt Symes, Caitlin McWilliams, Nick Lachance, Geoff Keelan, Jeffrey W. Deftly, he takes us through that “winter of discontent,” with the battle at Oswego (May 5-6), and the American invasion at Fort Erie, leaving the story at the Chippewa River in July – where, as the author writes, “a nasty surprise” awaited the confident American Major General Brown (to be taken up in the final vol., The Crucible of War).As always, there are vital charts and maps to indicate battalion movements, and a clear narrative of events and circumstances for a very complicated stage of the war. At this point, the costs in personnel, property and machinery were mounting terribly, and both sides were intent to bring about decisive victory by intensifying their commitment of troops and armaments, “upping the ante,” as Feltoe describes it in his second chapter.
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The latest in Richard Feltoe’s concise but comprehensive series for Dundurn, The Tide of War takes readers to the first half of 1814 and thus toward the war’s culmination. The Tide of War: The 1814 Invasions of Upper Canada
Graves is particularly adept at illuminating the military leadership on both sides, astutely allowing for both the expertise and also the weaknesses of British and Americans alike as they fought toward a high-stakes victory that only one could claim. The land and naval battle at Plattsburgh, New York, is similarly examined in careful and thorough detail, and with due attention to its effects on the war’s final outcome. His discussion of the bloody 53-day siege of Fort Erie shows how American success in withstanding the British was ultimately undermined by anxiety about the oncoming winter, prompting the strategic decision to remove the troops from the Canadian side of the Niagara River – effectively marking the end of fighting on Canadian territory. Here Graves considers the last major northern battles, effectively taking up the story where Feltoe leaves off and carrying it through the watershed summer and autumn of 1814. And All Their Glory Past is the long-awaited final volume of his acclaimed “Forgotten Soldiers” trilogy. 191ĭonald Graves has dedicated his research to uncovering the complexity of causes, events and outcomes that constituted the War of 1812. Winks, Robin, The Blacks in Canada: A History, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1971Īnd All Their Glory Past: Fort Erie, Plattsburgh and the Final Battles in the North, 1814ĭonald E.Bryan E., The Road That Led To Somewhere, Windsor: 1980 G., A History of Blacks in Canada: A Study Guide for Teachers and Students, Hull, Que: Supply and Services Canada, 1980 Smardz Frost, K., I’ve Got A Home In Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad, Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers and New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2007.Slaney, Catherine, Family Secrets: Crossing the Colour Line, Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2003.Peter, ed., The Black Abolitionist Papers, Volume II: Canada, Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1986 Prince, Bryan, I Came As A Stranger: The Underground Railroad, Toronto: Tundra Books, 2004.Dalyce, Anderson Ruffin Abbott: First Afro-Canadian Doctor, Markham, ON: Associated Medical Services/Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1998 Portrait of an American Hero, New York: Ballantine Books, 2004 Larson, Kate Clifford, Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman.
Hill, Daniel G., The Freedom-Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada, Agincourt, Ont.: The Book Society of Canada, 1981.Henson, Josiah, Autobiography of the Reverend Josiah Henson from 1789-1883, London, UK: Christian Age Offices, 1882.Cooper, Afua, The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal, Toronto: HarperCollins, 2006.Brode, Patrick, The Odyssey of John Anderson, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989.
Cooper, Sylvia Hamilton, Adrienne Shadd, ‘We’re Rooted Here and They Can’t Pull Us Up’: Essays in African Canadian Women’s History, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994 Bristow, Peggy, Dionne Brand, Linda Carty, Afua P.James, Educating African Canadians, Toronto: James Lorimer & Co., 1996 Alexander, Ken and Avis Glaze, Towards Freedom: The African-Canadian Experience, Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1996.
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