The Invasion Of Canada By The Americans 1775 1776

Author : Mark R. Anderson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438460055

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The Invasion of Canada by the Americans, 1775-1776 by Mark R. Anderson Pdf

Presents never before published and translated Canadian Loyalist and American Patriot first-hand accounts of the Quebec Campaign of the Revolutionary War. The Invasion of Canada by the Americans, 1775–1776 offers two significant, insightful, and intriguing first-hand accounts of the Revolutionary War. These previously untranslated and unpublished primary sources provide contrasting viewpoints from a Loyalist French-Canadian administrative official, Jean-Baptiste Badeaux, and a Patriot Continental officer, William Goforth. Compelling personal interactions with friends and neighbors, and local and provincial-level leaders—as occupier and occupied—are documented. Their stories climax during the two-month period in early 1776 when Goforth was military governor of Three Rivers and Badeaux served as his somewhat reluctant interpreter and unofficial advisor. Including their experiences with Benedict Arnold and Quebec’s Governor Guy Carleton, as well as letters to Benjamin Franklin and John Jay, this unique book provides diverse insights into the invasion of Canada and its immediate impact on the people on both sides of the revolution. Mark R. Anderson is an independent historian and author of The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony: America’s War of Liberation in Canada, 1774–1776. Teresa L. Meadows is Associate Professor of French and Visual and Performing Arts at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Author : Brendan Morrissey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Canadian Invasion, 1775-1776
ISBN : 0275984508

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Quebec, 1775 by Brendan Morrissey Pdf

Author : Henry Caldwell
Publisher : Printed at the Morning chronicle office
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Canadian Invasion, 1775-1776
ISBN : HARVARD:32044015479843

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The Invasion of Canada in 1775 by Henry Caldwell Pdf

A letter dated June 15, 1776, and supposed to be addressed to Gen. James Murray.

Author : François Baby,Gabriel Elzéard Taschereau,Jenkin Williams,Michael P. Gabriel
Publisher : East Lansing : Michigan State University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015061179118

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Quebec During the American Invasion, 1775-1776 by François Baby,Gabriel Elzéard Taschereau,Jenkin Williams,Michael P. Gabriel Pdf

Available for the first time in English, the 1776 journal of François Baby, Gabriel Taschereau, and Jenkin Williams provides an insight into the failure to incite rebellion in Quebec by American revolutionaries. While other sources have shown how British soldiers and civilians and the French-Canadian gentry (the seigneurs) responded to the American invasion of 1775-1776, this journal focuses on French-Canadian peasants (les habitants) who made up the vast majority of the population; in other words, the journal helps explain why Quebec did not become the "fourteenth colony." After American forces were expelled from Quebec in early 1776, the British governor, Sir Guy Carleton, sent three trusted envoys to discover who had collaborated with the rebels from the south. They traveled to fifty-six parishes and missions in the Quebec and Trois Rivières district, discharging disloyal militia officers and replacing them with faithful subjects. They prepared a report on each parish, revealing actions taken to support the Americans or the king. Baby and his colleagues documented a wide range of responses. Some habitants enlisted with the Americans; others supplied them with food, firewood, and transportation. Some habitants refused to cooperate with the king's soldiers. In some parishes, women were the Americans' most zealous supporters. Overall, the Baby Journal clearly reveals that the habitants played an important, but often overlooked, role in the American invasion.

Author : Arthur S. Lefkowitz
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781932714036

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Benedict Arnold's Army by Arthur S. Lefkowitz Pdf

A brilliant American combat officer and this country’s most famous traitor, Benedict Arnold is one of the most fascinating and complicated people to emerge from American history. His contemporaries called Arnold “the American Hannibal” after he successfully led more than 1,000 men through the savage Maine wilderness in 1775. The objective of Arnold and his heroic corps was the fortress city of Quebec, the capital of British-held Canada. The epic campaign is the subject of Benedict Arnold’s Army, a fascinating campaign to bring Canada into the war as the 14th colony. The initiative for the assault came from George Washington who learned that a fast moving detachment could surprise Quebec by following a chain of rivers and lakes through the Maine wilderness. Washington picked Col. Benedict Arnold, an obscure and controversial Connecticut officer, to command the corps who signed up for the secret mission. Arnold believed that his expedition would reach Quebec City in twenty days. The route turned out to be 270 miles of treacherous rapids, raging waterfalls, and trackless forests that took months to traverse. At times Arnold’s men were up to their waists in freezing water dragging and pushing their clumsy boats through surging rapids and hauling them up and over waterfalls. In one of the greatest exploits in American military history, Arnold led his famished corps through the early winter snow, up and over the Appalachian Mountains, and on to Quebec. Benedict Arnold’s Army covers a largely unknown but important period of Arnold’s life. Award-winning author Arthur Lefkowitz provides important insights into Arnold’s character during the earliest phase of his military career, showing his aggressive nature, need for recognition, experience as a competitive businessman, and his obsession with honor that started him down the path to treason. Lefkowitz extensively researched Arnold’s expedition and made numerous trips along the same route that Arnold’s army took. Benedict Arnold’s Army also contains a closing chapter with detailed information and maps for readers who wish to follow the expedition’s route from the coast of Maine to Quebec City. There is a growing interest in the Founding Fathers and the Revolutionary War as a source of national pride and identity and the Arnold Expedition as told through Benedict Arnold’s Army is one of the greatest adventure stories in American history. Arthur S. Lefkowitz lives in central New Jersey

Author : George Francis Gillman Stanley
Publisher : Samuel Stevens, Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040123146

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Canada Invaded, 1775-1776 by George Francis Gillman Stanley Pdf

Author : Mark R. Anderson
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611684988

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The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony by Mark R. Anderson Pdf

An unparalleled look at AmericaÍs Revolutionary War invasion of Canada

Author : Charles Henry Jones
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 102006224X

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History of the Campaign for the Conquest of Canada in 1776 by Charles Henry Jones Pdf

This book offers a detailed and comprehensive account of the American invasion of Canada in 1775-1776. The author describes the events leading up to the campaign and the military strategy and tactics employed by the American and British forces. The book also covers the key battles of the campaign, including the siege of Quebec and the Battle of Trois-Rivières. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Robert McConnell Hatch
Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015027011173

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Thrust for Canada by Robert McConnell Hatch Pdf

Author : William F. Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1460000374

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Damned Adventure by William F. Shaw Pdf

An almost forgotten piece of North American history is the first major military campaign that started the American Revolution. Over thirteen thousand troops were committed to capture the Province of Canada. Only one thousand British regulars were stationed to defend what was the largest of any of the territories in British North America. More than fifty percent of these were lost with the capitulation of Fort St. Jean. The "habitant" population was very receptive and supportive of the invaders. The only reasonable fortification was the walled Fort of Quebec. If the campaign had been successful, Canada would never have survived as a nation. Yet, it failed. This book tries to explain why. Dr. William F. Shaw was born, raised and educated in Montreal, including McGill University from 1949 to 1958, graduating with a DDS. He then served five years in the Royal Canadian Dental Corps in Canada and Europe. He entered private practice in Hudson, Quebec in 1963 where he became active in golf, sailing and coaching football at College Bourget in Rigaud. He became active in politics and in 1976 was elected to the Quebec National Assembly as the member for Pointe Claire. He was an active advocate for English language rights and with Lionel Albert wrote the book Partition: the Price of Quebec's Independence, published by Thornhill Publishing in 1980. Since then five other authors have written on the same subject with essentially the same thesis. This thesis is now confirmed in the Clarity Act. Dr. Shaw is now retired and living in Port Perry, Ontario, Canada.

Author : Harrison Bird
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Canadian Invasion, 1775-1776
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037977647

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Attack on Quebec by Harrison Bird Pdf

Author : Samuel Adams Drake
Publisher : Boston : Lee and Shepard
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Burgoyne's Invasion, 1777
ISBN : UCAL:$B309320

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Burgoyne's Invasion of 1777 by Samuel Adams Drake Pdf

Author : John Lespérance
Publisher : Belford Bros.
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : American fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081350803

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The Bastonnais by John Lespérance Pdf

Author : Simeon Thayer
Publisher : [Providence, R.I. : s.n.], 1867 (Providence, R.I. : Knowles, Anthony & Company, printers)
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Canada
ISBN : YALE:39002060927358

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The Invasion of Canada in 1775 by Simeon Thayer Pdf

Author : Gavin K. Watt
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459717640

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Poisoned by Lies and Hypocrisy by Gavin K. Watt Pdf

Historian Gavin K. Watt offers a fresh interpretation of the 1775 Invasion of Canada. In 1775, Governor Guy Carleton returned to Canada after a four-year absence in England to discover that political unrest in the American colonies was at a fever pitch. Soon after, open warfare erupted in Massachusetts, quickly followed by a rebel invasion. Historian Gavin K. Watt explores the first two campaigns of the American Revolution through their impact on Canada and describes how a motley group of militia, American loyalists, and British regulars managed to defend Quebec and repel the invaders.