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Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"In the first complete history of the War of 1812 written from a British perspective, Jon Latimer offers an authoriative and compelling account that places the conflict in its strategic context within the Napoleonic wars. The British viewed the War of 1812 as an ill-fated attempt by the young American republic to annex Canada. For British Canada, populated by many loyalists who had fled the American Revolution, this was a war of survival." From the...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
Drawn from new sources, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian presents a gripping narrative that recreates the events that inspired hundreds of slaves to pressure British admirals into becoming liberators by using their intimate knowledge of the countryside to transform the war.