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Author : James Laxer
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887842610
A political scientist, scholar and the best-selling author of Stalking the Elephant: My Discover of America describes the War of 1812 and discusses the strange alliance of a Shawnee chieftain and an English Major-General.
Author : James Laxer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1554981239
-This richly illustrated book tells the remarkable life story of Tecumseh--one of the great leaders of North America's First Peoples--culminating in the events of the War of 1812.---Front jacket flap.
Author : James Laxer
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781770891951
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British Empire is engaged in a titanic war with Napoleonic France for global supremacy. The American Republic is quickly expanding its territory along the western frontier, while native peoples struggle to protect their lands from the relentless wave of new settlers. Bestselling author and scholar James Laxer offers a fresh and compelling view of this decisive war, by bringing to life two major contests: the native peoples’ Endless War to establish nationhood and sovereignty on their traditional territories and the American campaign to settle its grievances with Britain through the conquest of Canada. At the heart of this story is the unlikely friendship and political alliance of Tecumseh, the Shawnee chief and charismatic leader of the native confederacy, and Major-General Isaac Brock, defender and protector of the British Crown. Together, these two towering figures secured what would become the nation of Canada. Vividly rendered and passionately depicted, Tecumseh and Brock is a highly engaging, impeccably researched, and powerful work of history.
Author : Guy St-Denis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Canada
ISBN : 1773850202
"Major General Sir Isaac Brock is remembered as the Hero of Upper Canada for his defence of what is now Ontario during the War of 1812 and for his noble death at the battle of Queenston Heights. In the time since his death, Brock's likeness has been lost in a confusing array of portraits-most of which are misidentified or conceptual. The 1824 monument constructed to honour Brock's sacrifice at Queenston Heights was destroyed in 1840 by Benjamin Lett, a disgruntled disciple of William Lyon Mackenzie and critic of the Upper Canadian elite. After this destruction, portraits of Brock were painted with a series of false faces that served competing claims and agendas. St-Denis situates Brock's portraits within an emerging English Canadian imperial nationalism that sought a heroic past which reflected their own aspirations and ambitions. A work of detailed scholarship and a fascinating detective story, "The True Face of Sir Isaac Brock" reveals the sometimes petty world of self-proclaimed guardians of the past, the complex process of identification and misidentification that occurs even at esteemed institutions, and St-Denis' own meticulous work as he separates fact from fiction to finally discover Brock's true face."--
Author : Ferdinand Brock TUPPER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020856434
Author : Wesley B. Turner
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459700079
Winner of the 2011 OHS Donald Grant Creighton Award This book is about Major General Sir Isaac Brock (1769 - October 13, 1812). It tells of his life, his career and legacy, particularly in the Canadas, and of the context within which he lived. One of the most enduring legacies of the War of 1812 on both the United States and Canadian sides was the creation of heroes and heroines. The earliest of those heroic individuals was Isaac Brock who in some ways was the most unlikely of heroes. For one thing, he was admired by his American foes almost as much as by his own people. Even more striking is how a British general whose military role in that two-and-a-half-year war lasted less than five months became the best known hero and one revered far and wide. Wesley B. Turner finds this outcome astonishing and approaches the subject from that point of view.
Author : Glenn Tucker
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781786251701
In the years just preceding the War of 1812 one man, an Indian, dominated the American frontier—Tecumseh. He emerges here as a vivid, splendid character, a man of unusual talents and noble aims, whereas in much previous history and biography he has been depicted as a baffling, sinister, often bloody figure—a man of inscrutable motives whose scheming for a time actually threatened to delay the settlement of the Northwest. Tecumseh’s great oratorical powers, his statesmanship, his military acumen, his personal magnetism won him the passionate loyalty of his Indians and the admiration of even his white enemies. In nobility of character, in leadership and in devotion to a lost cause he suggests points of comparison with Robert E. Lee. The need for this book is indicated by the fact that until its publication the standard biography has continued to be Benjamin Drake’s book first published in 1841 and ranks as a collectors’ item. Tecumseh’s great vision was a confederation of all the Indian tribes to check the encroachment of the whites on the Indian lands. His journeys took him from the Mohawk River in the east to the Arkansas in the west, from Lake Superior to the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Tucker offers proof that the British in Canada did not push Tecumseh on war with the United States—as historians have claimed—but on the contrary Tecumseh urged the British to declare war. The high point of Tecumseh’s point probably came when with Major General Brook he captured Detroit and made a sizeable American army to surrender. Only a few months later his forces, outnumbered and almost unsupported by their brave and futile stand on the Thames River. Tecumseh was killed, and his dream of a red empire broken. So ended the mighty vision and the greatest of the great chiefs.
Author : Jonathon Riley
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473811560
The monument to Isaac Brock (17691812) on Queenston Heights in Canada, as high as Nelsons column in London, pays tribute to the military commander of all troops opposing the American invasion of Canada during the War of 1812. Brocks service during the War of 1812 includes leading the capture of Detroit. He was killed on the morning of 13 October 1812, leading a company of the 49th Foot in a counter-attack on the American lodgement atop Queenston Heights. Although Brock died and his uphill charge against the American muskets failed, the invasion was repulsed soon afterwards.A Matter of Honour focuses on Brocks career as a military commander and also as a civil administrator for the government of Upper Canada. Early chapters deal with his life and military service up to 1791. The book also records his command of the 49th Regiment in the Low Countries and at Copenhagen up to his arrival in Canada in 1802. Brock spent more time in Canada than any other British general who fought in the War of 1812. He faced a difficult situation in Canada, defending a long frontier with meagre resources. However, he was renowned for his resourcefulness, inspiring leadership and ability to keep opponents off-balance
Author : Peter Cozzens
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525434887
"An insightful, unflinching portrayal of the remarkable siblings who came closer to altering the course of American history than any other Indian leaders." —H.W. Brands, author of The Zealot and the Emancipator The first biography of the great Shawnee leader to make clear that his misunderstood younger brother, Tenskwatawa, was an equal partner in the last great pan-Indian alliance against the United States. Until the Americans killed Tecumseh in 1813, he and his brother Tenskwatawa were the co-architects of the broadest pan-Indian confederation in United States history. In previous accounts of Tecumseh's life, Tenskwatawa has been dismissed as a talentless charlatan and a drunk. But award-winning historian Peter Cozzens now shows us that while Tecumseh was a brilliant diplomat and war leader--admired by the same white Americans he opposed--it was Tenskwatawa, called the "Shawnee Prophet," who created a vital doctrine of religious and cultural revitalization that unified the disparate tribes of the Old Northwest. Detailed research of Native American society and customs provides a window into a world often erased from history books and reveals how both men came to power in different but no less important ways. Cozzens brings us to the forefront of the chaos and violence that characterized the young American Republic, when settlers spilled across the Appalachians to bloody effect in their haste to exploit lands won from the British in the War of Independence, disregarding their rightful Indian owners. Tecumseh and the Prophet presents the untold story of the Shawnee brothers who retaliated against this threat--the two most significant siblings in Native American history, who, Cozzens helps us understand, should be writ large in the annals of America.
Author : Walter R. Nursey
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734046759
Reproduction of the original: The Story of Isaac Brock by Walter R. Nursey
Author : Carl F. Klinck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015003688846
Author : Allan W. Eckert
Publisher : Domain
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780553561746
A biography of the famous Shawnee describes Tecumseh's plan to amalgamate all North American tribes into one people, his role as statesman and military strategist, and his death in the Battle of Thames.
Author : John Sugden
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466849044
If Sitting Bull is the most famous Indian, Tecumseh is the most revered. Although Tecumseh literature exceeds that devoted to any other Native American, this is the first reliable biography--thirty years in the making--of the shadowy figure who created a loose confederacy of diverse Indian tribes that exted from the Ohio territory northeast to New York, south into the Florida peninsula, westward to Nebraska, and north into Canada. A warrior as well as a diplomat, the great Shawnee chief was a man of passionate ambitions. Spurred by commitment and served by a formidable battery of personal qualities that made him the principal organizer and the driving force of confederacy, Tecumseh kept the embers of resistence alive against a federal government that talked cooperation but practiced genocide following the Revolutionary War. Tecumseh does not stand for one tribe or nation, but for all Native Americans. Despite his failed attempt at solidarity, he remains the ultimate symbol of eavor and courage, unity and fraternity.
Author : Isaac Brock
Publisher : London : Simpkin, Marshall
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Canada
ISBN : UCAL:$B309550
Author : Hugh S. Eayrs
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547026228
Sir Isaac Brock, having also a military title Major-General, was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Guernsey. He was assigned to Lower Canada in 1802. He commanded his regiment in Upper Canada successfully for many years, despite facing desertions. Hugh S. Eayrs offers a detailed overview of his life and his role in the development of the country.
