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A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
Description"Delves deeply and together with rueful wisdom into a terrible crime perpetrated by European imperialists and American colonists."—Thomas Fleming

On August 25, 1755, the New York Gazette printed a dispatch from the maritime province of Nova Scotia: "We are now upon a excellent and noble Scheme of sending the neutral French out of this ...

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1812: War with America
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Pay attention to a short interview together with Jon Latimer
Host: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane

In the first complete history of the War of 1812 written from a British perspective, Jon Latimer proposes an authoritative and compelling account this places the conflict in its strategic context inside the Napoleonic wars. The British ...

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ManufacturerBelknap Press of Harvard University Press
Categories Europe   United States   Military   General AAS   Pre-Confederation   War of 1812   Antebellum   General   Canada   Hardcover   Printed Books  
The Knights Templar in the New World: How Henry Sinclair Brought the Grail to Acadia
DescriptionUses the principles of sacred geometry, archaeological evidence, and Native American legend to discover the site of a secret Templar settlement in Nova Scotia.

• Proposes evidence this Scottish prince Henry Sinclair not only sailed to the New World 100 years before Columbus, but this he in addition established a refuge there for the Templars fleeing ...

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Categories Pre-Confederation   General   Medieval   Fairy Tales   Geography   Freemasonry   History   Paperback   Printed Books  
Flames Across the Border: The Canadian-American tragedy, 1813-1814
DescriptionThe Canada – U.S. border was in flames as the War of 1812 continued. York's parliament buildings were on fire, Niagara-on-the-Lake burned to the ground and Buffalo lay in ashes. Even the American capital of Washington, far to the south, was put to the torch. The War of 1812 had become one of the nineteenth century's bloodiest ...
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The Incredible War of 1812: A Military History
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Strange Fatality: The Battle of Stoney Creek, 1813
DescriptionIn the spring of 1813, the largest amphibious force in American history to this point - 6,000 troops aboard 140 vessels - landed near the mouth of the Niagara River, routed the British garrison and captured Fort George. It was the second consecutive American victory and a mark this events of 1813 would redress the calamities of 1812. The badly ...
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Categories 19th Century   20th Century   Pre-Confederation   War of 1812   Antebellum   General   Canada   Paperback   Printed Books  
Acadian Redemption: From Beausoleil Brossard to the Queen's Royal Proclamation
DescriptionAcadian Redemption, the first biography of an Acadian exile, defines the 18th century society of Acadia into which Joseph dit Beausoleil Broussard was born in 1702. The book explains his early life events and militant struggles together with the British who had, for years, wanted to lay claim to the Acadians' rich lands. Subsequent chapters discuss the ...
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The Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814
DescriptionThe Sixty Years' War for the Excellent Lakes contains twenty essays regarding not only military and naval operations, but in addition the political, economic, social, and cultural interactions of individuals and groups during the struggle to control the excellent freshwater lakes and rivers between the Ohio Valley and the Canadian Shield. Contributing scholars ...
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Categories 19th Century   20th Century   First Nations   Pre-Confederation   Province & Local   War of 1812   Southwest   General   Midwest   Canada   Naval   Cultural   Hardcover   Printed Books  
The Cajuns: A People's Story of Exile and Triumph
DescriptionFrom the Author's Introduction

This is the story of one of the excellent crimes of history, a brutal act of genocide committed two and a half centuries ago.Extra than 10,000 men, women and kids were removed from their homeland at gunpoint and sent into exile. They were stripped of the farms this ad nurtured and sustained their ...

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Categories United States   General AAS   Pre-Confederation   Province & Local   General   Louisiana   Social History   Cultural   Ethnic Studies   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Guide Book to the Historic Sites of the War of 1812
DescriptionThere have been guidebooks to military sites before, but no book has covered the War of 1812 in its entirety. Now for the first time, Dundurn Press can propose this guidebook to all of the key historic sites of the War of 1812, and some of the extra obscure ones. In detailing these sites, Collins has integrated 385 historic sites and markers, ...
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