The battle for the fourteenth colony America's war of liberation in Canada, 1774/1776
An unparalleled look at America's Revolutionary War invasion of Canada.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lebanon, NH :
University Press of New England
2013.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b46060790*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The only link wanting: the First Continental Congress invites Canada
- New subjects to the king: Canadians and the Province of Quebec
- Fuel for rebellion: the British party and the Quebec Act of 1774
- Authors and agitators: patriot correspondence and John Brown's mission
- Preemptive strikes: Ticonderoga and Fort St-Jean
- That damned absurd word "liberty": Quebec's own rebellion
- To erect the glorious standard of American liberty in Canada: the decision to intervene
- The Canadians opened the road: continentals and partisans on the Richelieu River
- The treachery and villainy of the Canadians: collaboration, resistance, and siege in the Montreal District
- Another path to the heart of Quebec: Canada's capital, Hannibal's heir, and the Kennebec Expedition
- To winter in Canada: "free" Montreal and Fortress Quebec
- Time to consider politics: the Continental Congress, the Northern Army, and a Committee for Canada
- Contest of wills at Quebec: the fortress capital; key to victory?
- The question of loyalists: General Wooster and "liberated" Montreal, 1775
- A critical month: Wooster's Montreal, January 1776
- Evolving occupation: Montreal and the struggle for the Canadian spirit
- A spirit of cooperation and understanding: William Goforth, Jean-Baptiste Badeaux, and Trois-Rivières
- Patriot zealots: Benedict Arnold, Canadian patriots, and the Quebec City blockade
- Spring of unrest: a Canadian battle in the Quebec District
- A late-changing cast: new continental leadership for Canada
- May tides: new arrivals and massive change for the province
- The sad necessity of abandoning Canada: military collapse and the end of the Canadian continental experience
- The causes of the miscarriages in Canada: Carleton and Congress investigate the failures
- Conclusion: misinterpretations and missteps in a war to spread democracy.
