Best Canadian War of 1812 History Books
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1. 2021-2022 Pocket Calendar: 24-Month JANUARY 2021 – DECEMBER 2022 | Two-Year Monthly Planner for Purse | Small Agenda Schedule | Organizer Notebook | … Watercolor Mandala Design (2-Year calendar)
Author: by Clearcalendar Press
Published at: Independently published (September 9, 2020)
ISBN: 979-8684276903
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2. The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies
Author: by Alan Taylor
Published at: Vintage; Reprint edition (October 4, 2011)
ISBN: 978-0679776734
In the early nineteenth century, Britons and Americans renewed their struggle over the legacy of the American Revolution, leading to a second confrontation that redefined North America. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor’s vivid narrative tells the riveting story of the soldiers, immigrants, settlers, and Indians who fought to determine the fate of a continent.
Would revolutionary republicanism sweep the British from Canada? Or would the British contain, divide, and ruin the shaky republic? In a world of double identities, slippery allegiances, and porous boundaries, the leaders of the republic and of the empire struggled to control their own diverse peoples.
The border divided Americansformer Loyalists and Patriotswho fought on both sides in the new war, as did native peoples defending their homelands. And dissident Americans flirted with secession while aiding the British as smugglers and spies. During the war, both sides struggled to sustain armies in a northern land of immense forests, vast lakes, and stark seasonal swings in the weather.
3. Niagara 1814: The final invasion (Campaign)
Author: by Jon Latimer
Published at: Osprey Publishing; 1st edition (May 19, 2009)
ISBN: 978-1846034398
The War of 1812 (1812-1814) has the strange distinction of being a war largely forgotten by both of its main participants. Despite being overshadowed by the Napoleonic Wars raging in Europe, the War of 1812 saw Americans, British, Canadians, and Native Americans wage an increasing brutal conflict all along the border.
By 1814, with war coming to a close in Europe, the Americans decided to launch one last, major land offensive in an attempt to seize Canada. Although previous attempts had most often ended in disaster, the American army of 1814 contained several highly trained units under competent leadership including the legendary Winfield Scott.
This final Niagara campaign saw a number of pitched battles including Chippawa, Lundy’s Lane, and Cook’s Mill, where the American Bluecoats matched the British shot for shot. However, due to poor planning at the highest levels of American office, the campaign was ultimately a failure and the result ensured the survival of Canada as an independent state.
4. U.S. Military History For Dummies
Author: by John C. McManus
Published at: For Dummies (November 5, 2007)
ISBN: 978-0470165027
Want to know more about American military history?U.S. Military History For Dummies presents concise and revealing accounts of all of the nation’s armed conflicts from the French and Indian War to Iraq. It explains how the U.S.
Military is organized and how its branches operate, both independently and together. This straightforward guide examines the causes for each of America’s wars and reveals how these conflicts have shaped the nation’s borders, society, politics, culture, and future. You’ll meet heroes, cowards, patriots, and traitors; relive great battles; and get a taste of what combat is really like, as you discover: How the French/Indian war sowed the seeds of the Revolutionary War Why America’s battle for independence didn’t end at Yorktown Early U.S.
Wars against Indians, tax cheats, and pirates The War of 1812: guaranteeing U.S. Sovereignty “Manifest Destiny” wars that stretched America from sea to shining sea Why the American Civil War could not be avoided The Spanish American War and the U.S.
5. The War of 1812: Conflict for a Continent (Cambridge Essential Histories)
Author: by J. C. A. Stagg
Published at: Cambridge University Press (March 19, 2012)
ISBN: 978-0521726863
This book is a narrative history of the many dimensions of the War of 1812 social, diplomatic, military, and political which places the war’s origins and conduct in transatlantic perspective. The events of 18121815 were shaped by the larger crisis of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe.
In synthesizing and reinterpreting scholarship on the war, Professor J.C.A. Stagg focuses on the war as a continental event, highlighting its centrality to Canadian nationalism and state development. The book introduces the war to students and general readers, concluding that it resulted in many ways from an emerging nation-state trying to contend with the effects of rival European nationalisms, both in Europe itself and in the Atlantic world.
6. A Mohawk Memoir from the War of 1812: John Norton – Teyoninhokarawen
Author: by Carl Benn
Published at: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division (October 25, 2019)
ISBN: 978-1487523268
A Mohawk Memoir from the War of 1812 presents the story of John Norton, or Teyoninhokarawen, an important war chief and political figure among the Grand River Haudenosaunee (or Iroquois) in Upper Canada. Norton saw more action during the conflict than almost anyone else, being present at the fall of Detroit; the capture of Fort Niagara; the battles of Queenston Heights, Fort George, Stoney Creek, Chippawa, and Lundy’s Lane; the blockades of Fort George and Fort Erie; and a large number of skirmishes and front-line patrols.
His memoir describes the fighting, the stresses suffered by indigenous peoples, and the complex relationships between the Haudenosaunee and both their British allies and other First Nations communities. Norton’s account, written in 1815 and 1816, provides nearly one-third of the book’s content, with the remainder consisting of Carl Benn’s introductions and annotations, which enable readers to understand Norton’s fascinating autobiography within its historical contexts.
7. The Lake Erie Campaign of 1813: I Shall Fight Them This Day (Military)
Author: by Walter P. Rybka
Published at: The History Press (June 22, 2012)
ISBN: 978-1609497149
The story of the Lake Erie Campaign and the culminating Battle of Lake Erie. On September 10, 1813, the hot, still air that hung over Lake Erie was broken by the sounds of sharp conflict. Led by Oliver Hazard Perry, the American fleet met the British, and though they sustained heavy losses, Perry and his men achieved one of the most stunning victories in the War of 1812.
Author Walter Rybka traces the Lake Erie Campaign from the struggle to build the fleet in Erie, Pennsylvania, during the dead of winter and the conflict between rival egos of Perry and his second in command, Jesse Duncan Elliott, through the exceptionally bloody battle that was the first U.S.
Victory in a fleet action. With the singular perspective of having sailed the reconstructed U.S. Brig Niagara for over 20 years, Rybka brings the knowledge of a shipmaster to this war story.
8. The War of 1812: A Guide to Battlefields and Historic Sites
Author: by John Grant
Published at: Turner; Illustrated edition (October 4, 2011)
ISBN: 978-1596528307
It has been almost two full centuries since a thin line of Canadian militiamen turned back an American army at Crysler’s Farm on the banks of the St. Lawrence, and the tattered Star-Spangled Banner flew through the night and into the dawn over Fort McHenry, surviving a storm of Royal Navy shot and shell.
However, the approach of the war’s bicentennial has unleashed a cascade of interest in this smoky, old cannon-and-musket conflict. Lushly illustrated with more than 120 color photographs and archival paintings, this exciting documentary companion brings the war to life with vivid descriptions and insightful eyewitness accounts.
Readers can relive key moments in the conflict by visiting battlefields and other relevant sites such as Queenstown Heights, Lundy’s Lane, Fort McHenry, and Chalmette Plantation outside New Orleans. The book is divided into seven chronologically arranged chapters, each of them focusing on one of several distinct theaters of the war.
Follow the course of what ha
9. Hostages to Fortune: The United Empire Loyalists and the Making of Canada
Author: by Peter C Newman
Published at: Touchstone; Canadian Origin edition (November 1, 2016)
ISBN: 978-1451686098
Esteemed Canadian author Peter C. Newman recounts the dramatic journey of the United Empire Loyaliststheir exodus from America, their resettlement in the wilds of British North America, and their defense of what would prove to be the social and moral foundation of Canada.
In 1776, tensions in the British colonies were reaching a fever pitch. The citizenry was divided between those who wished to establish a new republic and those who remained steadfast in their dedication to the British Empire. As the tensions inevitably boiled over into violence, fault lines were exposed as every person was forced to choose a side.
Neighbours turned against each other.Families divided. Borders were redrawn. The conflict was long and bloody, and no side emerged unscathed. But there is one story that is often overlooked in the American Revolutionary canon. When the smoke from the battles had settled, tens of thousands of individuals who had remained loyal to the crown in the conflict found themselves without a home to return to.
10. Perry's Lake Erie Fleet: After the Glory
Author: by David Frew
Published at: The History Press; Illustrated edition (April 22, 2012)
ISBN: 978-1609496104
Navigate the treacherous waters of Lake Erie, Lake Huron and the Georgian Bay to discover the fates of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and his fleet. Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry’s defeat of the British at the Battle of Lake Erie was a defining moment both in the War of 1812 and American naval history.
Yet the story of Perry’s fleet did not end there. Come aboard as author David Frew chronicles the years and decades after Perry’s victory. Heroic acts and bitter defeats unfold as Frew details the lives of fleet surgeon Usher Parsons, shipwright Daniel Dobbins and fleet commander Oliver Hazard Perry and his successors.
The adventure moves from the tribulations of Misery Bay and a crafty British victory in the Lake Huron Campaign to the closing of the naval base in Erie and the raising of the Niagara in the twentieth century. Navigate the treacherous waters of Lake Erie, Lake Huron and the Georgian Bay to discover the fates of Perry and his fleet.
11. Tecumseh and Brock: The War of 1812
Author: by James Laxer
Published at: House of Anansi Press; First Edition (June 5, 2012)
ISBN: 978-0887842610
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the British Empire is at the height of its ascendancy; Napoleonic France is struggling to maintain its position as a world power; and the incumbent American empire is quickly expanding its territory, while the Native peoples struggle to establish their own confederacy, their own independent nation.
Bestselling author, historian, political scientist, and scholar James Laxer offers a fresh and compelling view of this decisive war which historians have long treated as a second American revolution by bringing to life the Native struggle for nationhood and sovereignty; the battle between the British Empire and the United States over Upper and Lower Canada; and finally, at the heart of it, the unlikely friendship and political alliance of two towering figures of history: Tecumseh, the Shawnee chieftain and charismatic leader of the Native confederacy, and Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, protector and defender of the British Empire.
Highly engaging and impeccably researched, Tecumseh and Brock is a powerful work of history, an epic story of empires and emerging nations, of politics and power, and of two leaders whose legacy still lives on today.
12. Canoe Country: The Making of Canada
Author: by Roy MacGregor
Published at: Random House Canada; Canadian First edition (September 8, 2015)
ISBN: 978-0307361417
One of our favourite chroniclers of all things Canadian presents a rollicking, personal, photo-filled history of the relationship between a country and its canoes. From the earliest explorers on the Columbia River in BC or the Mattawa in Ontario to a doomed expedition of voyageurs up the Nile to rescue Khartoum; from the author’s family roots deep in the Algonquin wilderness to modern families who have canoed across the country (kids and dogs included): Canoe Country is Roy MacGregor’s celebration of the essential and enduring love affair Canadians have with our first and still favourite means of getting around.
Famous paddlers have been so enchanted with the canoe that one swore God made Canada as the perfect country in which to paddle it. Drawing on MacGregor’s own decades spent whenever possible with a paddle in his hand, this is a story of high adventure on white water and the sweetest peace in nature’s quietest corners, from the author best able (and most eager) to tell it.
13. Armies of The War of 1812: The Armies of the United States, United Kingdom and Canada from 1812 – 1815
Author: by Gabriele Esposito
Published at: Winged Hussar Publishing; Illustrated edition (August 6, 2019)
ISBN: 978-1945430039
A complete guide to the armies, weapons and uniforms of the War of 1812, written by Gabriele Esposito A complete guide to the armies, weapons and uniforms of the War of 1812, written by Gabriele Esposito This work will cover the US, British, native and Canadian forces that fought in the conflict, often call the second war for independence.
The book will contain a history of the war, battles, key figures as well as maps and figures.
14. For Honour's Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace
Author: by Mark Zuehlke
Published at: Vintage Canada; Reprint edition (October 9, 2007)
ISBN: 978-0676977066
In the tradition of Margaret MacMillan’s Paris 1919 comes a new consideration of Canada’s most famous war and the Treaty of Ghent that unsatisfactorily concluded it, from one of this country’s premier military historians. In the Canadian imagination, the War of 1812 looms large.
It was a war in which British and Indian troops prevailed in almost all of the battles, in which the Americans were unable to hold any of the land they fought for, in which a young woman named Laura Secord raced over the Niagara peninsula to warn of American plans for attack (though how she knew has never been discovered), and in which Canadian troops burned down the White House.
Competing American claims insist to this day that, in fact, it was they who were triumphant. But where does the truth lie? Somewhere in the middle, as is revealed in this major new reconsideration from one of Canada’s master historians.
Drawing on never-before-seen archival material, Zuehlke paints a vibrant picture of the war’s major battles, vividly re-creating life in the trenches, the horrifying day-to-day manoeuvring on land and sea, and the dramatic negotiations in the Flemish city of Ghent that brought the war to an unsatisfactory end for both sides.
