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printing of important Canadian document relating to American Revolutionary War.......2005-09-27
The three writers of the journal were agents sent by the British governor of Quebec, Sir Guy Carleton, to travel among the surrounding parishes and missions to find out who had lent support to the American troops in their invasion of Canada during the Revolutionary War. The Americans knew that they had support among some of the French-Canadian "habitants" (i. e., peasants). Though this support turned out not to be widespread or effective enough to help the Americans to victory, Carleton wanted to weed the supporters out of the local militias. In their journal, Baby and the others reported parish by parish the actions they took against individuals posing a threat to British control of Canada and the reasons for this. Some militia men performed military duties such as standing guard for the invading rebel forces; others encouraged support for them; and others offered them food or transpiration. Carleton's punitive measures were mild, dismissal from the militia in most cases; but they were effective in virtually eliminating what support there was for the Americans among the French-Canadian peasants. The journal is an important historical document first published in the 1920s.
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The American attack on Quebec in 1775 was a key episode in the War of Independence. Capture of the city would give the Americans control of Canada – a disaster for the British. The subsequent campaign involved a 350-mile trek across uninhabited wilderness, a desperate American attack on the city of Quebec that left one American general dead and another wounded, and a British counterattack that culminated in a brutal naval battle off Valcour Island on Lake Champlain. In this book Brendan Morrissey details the events of this ferocious struggle whose results would have such momentous consequences at Saratoga in 1777.
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Benedict Arnold's Finest Hour.......2004-01-12
The American invasion of Canada in 1775 rarely gets much coverage in American history for a variety of reasons. Americans like to think of their forefathers defending home and hearth against British tyranny, spearheaded by the dreaded Redcoats, not invading a territory that did not want to be part of their new nation. The fact that the campaign also ended in ignominious failure further discourages attention. However perhaps the greatest impediment to American study of this important but neglected campaign is the fact that the hero of the hour was none other than Benedict Arnold, the most despised figure in American history. Brendan Morrissey, the British PR consultant who did three earlier volumes for Osprey on the American Revolution, brings the Quebec campaign into sharp focus in Osprey's Campaign #128. In particular, this volume on Quebec 1775 would also make a useful campaign study for military officers.
Quebec 1775 begins with a 5-page introduction that provides background on the Quebec Act, a four-page section on the geography, people and political issues and a campaign chronology. The sections on opposing commanders and opposing forces are decent, but Morrissey provides no order of battle for either side (in particular, he omits British ground and naval forces in Nova Scotia). The campaign narrative itself is 60 pages long, and includes separate sections on the initial battles, Arnold's journey across the Maine wilderness, the American retreat from Canada and the Battle of Valcour Island. The author also provides an interesting section on the battlefields today and an annotated bibliography. The campaign narrative is supported by five 2-D maps (North America and the Quebec Act; Lower Canada on the eve of war; Montgomery's advance into Canada; Arnold's march to Quebec; Sullivan's retreat from Canada), three 3-D "Bird's Eye View" maps (the siege of St Johns; the attack on Quebec; the Battle of Valcour Island) and three color battle scenes (the siege of St Johns; Arnold is wounded at Quebec; the Hesse Hanau artillery in action at Valcour Island). All in all, the graphic presentations are effective and make this volume a useful supplement to any study of early military operations in the American Revolution.
Morrissey is a good storyteller and he relates the facts of the campaign with both precision and accuracy. However, Morrissey does not really attempt any military analysis and readers should be cautioned to treat the authors' opinion with some circumspection. Throughout the text, Morrissey defends Major General Sir Guy Carleton, the British commander in Canada, from accusations of over-caution and even timidity. Yet it is pretty obvious that the British army in Canada had gotten into a peacetime rut after nine years of quiet garrison duty in Montreal and neither the troops or commanders were up to the demands of mobile warfare. Carleton's decision to commit the bulk of his regulars to a "die-in-place" mission at St. Johns on the border rather than to conduct a delay or launch a spoiling attack was a major mistake. Indeed, the passivity of the British regulars in the first six months of the campaign is truly amazing - they virtually sat immobile and then just fell over like ninepins at the first strike - and it goes a long way toward explaining American initial successes. Morrissey considers the siege of St Johns as a valiant effort that delayed the American invasion for two months but the defense did not save Montreal from occupation and Arnold did not reach Quebec until nearly two weeks after the surrender of St Johns. With the loss of Montreal and nearly 70% of the British regulars in Canada at the cost of fewer than 200 American casualties, the British were on the verge of losing in weeks what had taken years of hard fighting to conquer in the Seven Years War.
Like most historians, Morrissey goes along with the notion that the American assault on Quebec on New Years Eve 1775 was foredoomed to failure. Granted, the Americans were attacking a fortified position held by an enemy that outnumbered them 2-1, but Morrissey does not credit the American advantages in morale and maneuver warfare. The British rag-tag force of militia (French and English), sailors and a few remaining regulars was willing to wait behind their defenses and they were commanded by men who leaned toward caution. Arnold and Daniel Morgan, the commander of the riflemen, typified the aggressive and anything-is-possible type mentality that represented the real military capability of the American patriots in 1775-1776. Morrissey fails to note that the American plan of attack - a pincer effort - was fairly sophisticated and came fairly close to success. Had the Americans made more effort in dealing with the British obstacle plan, the defenses might have been breached and the polyglot British force probably would have surrendered (certainly the Canada militia would probably have decided not to risk their lives for the British). As it was, the failure of the attack and the loss of much of the American army did not entice the slightest aggressiveness from Carleton.
After leading the New Years Eve attack with Richard Montgomery and being wounded, Arnold remained in Canada to rally the now-dispirited Americans. Once British reinforcements arrived in 1776 and the American army began to retreat, Morrissey notes that Arnold was the last American soldier to leave Canada. Arnold then threw himself into the construction of a fleet on Lake Champlain and fought the Battle of Valcour Island that helped to delay a British counter-invasion of northern New York. All in all, Arnold's performance in the Quebec campaign between May 1775 and October 1776 was one of the amazing displays of dynamic tactical leadership ever seen by an American commander. Unfortunately, as Medal of Honor winner "Pappy" Boyington once said, "show me a hero and I'll show you a bum," it was never more true than in the case of Arnold.
superb.......2003-11-19
I have alwasy been an admirer of the American revolution. It was this nation's greatest war, as well as being the war in which this nation was born.
Just as I have been an admirer of Osprey Publishers for the quality they produce in their books.
Brendan Morrissey is one of the most facinating of their writers. Because here is an Englishman writing so well about battles in a war his country lost, without putting in a single sour word. And though I still think ins work Boston 1775 is his best so far, Quebec 1775 is pretty good. Since it gives a good view to a campain that took place during the crucial early phase of this war, in which had anything gond different, we might still be part of the Commonwealth, Though we would be controling it.
I enjoyed this book.
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Arnold's Expedition To Quebec
John Codman
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2005 Scholar's Bookshelf reprint edition. The first and still the most thorough study of Arnolds 1775
attempt to capture Quebec, with a full account of its planning
and execution, the tremendous difficulties imposed by
the terrain and the weather, the assault, the death of
Montgomery, and the ultimate failure of the expedition.
Includes the 2 original oversize foldout maps, 14 1/2 x 5
1/2 and 11 x 14. Reprint edition. 2005: 340 pages, illustrated.
Softcover.
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General Overview.......2005-11-06
I've cited several passages in a very detailed book I'm writing on Arnold's march, but only in what Bird gets wrong concerning the maps, scouts and blame for my ancestor Reuben Colburn's boat construction techniques, but it's not as bad as some have said. Once underway Colburn' Company of carpenters is nowhere to be found, when in reality they marched and repaired the bateaux all the way to Quebec and the flat-bottomed boats carried many of the leaders all the way to the French settlements. It has more background on the surrounding campaigns on Lake Champlain and the background of Canada at the time, prior to and during the march, but the march itself is a quickie version, as is the actual battle. My book has been turned down by Oxford and many agents claiming "I didn't write it for the average reader." This one was but most of the intersesting details aren't there as they should be.
Not so....good?.......2000-11-23
It was very broad and didn't really give too many specifics...
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Our Struggle For The Fourteenth Colony; Canada And The American Revolution
Justin H. Smith
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2005 Scholar's Bookshelf reprint edition. The still-definitive study of the effort of the thirteen colonies
to bring Canada into the American Revolution from the earliest
efforts of the Boston Committee of Correspondence on
through the carrying of military operations up through the
Hudson Valley and on to Quebec, Canadian defenses under
Carleton, and concluding with the failure of Arnolds expedition
and the ultimate abandonment of the efforts of the
American revolutionaries. Unabridged reprint of the New
York: 1907 edition. 2005: 638 + 635 pages. 315 illustrations and 23 maps. Softcover.
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Identity Politics in Central Asia and the Muslim World (Library of International Relations Vol. 13)
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Nationalism was regarded as a positive force shaping "modern" societies and states but in Europe it has been overshadowed by the disasters of two world wars. Outside Europe, however, it has continued to flourish throughout the 20th century. Covering Turkey, Iran, Abkhazia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, this study reveals the counter-forces unleashed by the project of nationalist modernization, and the stimulation of identity politics as the result of ruthless repression of minority languages, culture, traditions, and religion--the life-blood of minority ethnicity. The study examines how these policies have strengthened identity politics and the movements for opting out of the nation.
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Thinking geographically means more than knowing where things are; it means being able to interpret geographic information, and to make sense of our world. Using maps and engaging map-centered questions, the World Atlas Student Workbook featuring maps from the Rand McNally Goode's World Atlas, 21st Edition provides an interactive guide to the physical, human, and political features of the world, as well as the specific features of each of the Earth's continents. With this workbook, readers will be able to construct their own mental map of the world, and to see the world from a truly geographic perspective.
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Cap Regimes and the European Countryside: Prospects for Integrations between Agricultural, Regional and Environmental Policies (Cabi Publishing)
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The objectives of this book are to review assessments made on the environmental effects of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and to judge the contributions of agricultural policy to environmental quality in the European Union. It focuses on the role of agricultural policy in reducing harmful effects and/or creating benefits to the physical environment, landscape and nature. Emphasis is given to comparative studies, rather than limited to one country. A major part of the book considers the commodity regimes of the CAP - e.g. the beef regime, the dairy regime, and the olive oil regime.
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Die Wirtschaftliche Nutzung der Nordsee und die Europaische Gemeinschaft (Schriftenreihe des Arbeitskreises Europaische Integration e.V)
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Economic Development and Environmental Gain: European Environmental Integration and Regional Competitiveness
Keith Clement
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A new, positive perspective on the interrelationship between economic development and environmental protection, offering practical suggestions for reconciling the dichotomy to mutual advantage.
It contains detailed information and assessment of incentives and policy instruments available within Europe to encourage good practice, and offers practical step-by-step guidance on achieving environmental gain in regional economic programmes. The valuable insights are based on wide international comparative experience of programme evaluation.
The book illustrates how the scope for environmental integration is increasing in EU regional economic programmes. It describes in detail an appropriate methodology for securing improved environmental benefit and explores the potential for achieving regional environmental competitiveness.
Essential reading for researchers, academics and students in environmental management, economics, policy studies, political science, geography and European studies; for government policy-makers with responsibility for economic and environmental programmes/initiatives, especially in Central and Eastern Europe; and for pressure groups and consultants specializing in environmental issues.
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Energy and Environment in the European Union: The Challenge of Integration (Avebury Studies in Green Research)
Collier Ute
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Environmental Policy Integration
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Integrating environmental policies into the policies of all other sectors is the core European environmental policy. But there has been no thorough investigation of the political process involved. This volume provides it. It analyzes the process of policy integration--the greening of public policy--across the relevant sectors and countries. It finds very significant variation from sector to sector and from country to country, and it analyzes the reasons for this. (Surprisingly the UK, traditionally the "dirty man" of Europe is far more actively engaged than environmental "progressives" such as Germany.) It identifies the obstacles to integration and offers solutions for policy formulation, decision making and implementation at the relevant political levels.
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Environmental Policy With Political and Economic Integration: The European Union and the United States (New Horizons in Environmental Economics)
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European Integration and Environmental Policy
J. D. Liefferink , and
P. D. Lowe
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Through a detailed analysis this book examines the role of law in European Union integration processes through the implementation of the EU Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control at European Level and in the UK and Germany. The book questions traditional conceptions which perceive law as the â€~formal law in the books’, as instrumental and as relatively autonomous in relation to its social contexts. The book also discusses in depth how the key legal obligation on the Directive, to employ â€~the best available techniques’, is actually implemented. This research locates the analysis of the implementation of the IPPC Directive in the wider context of current, cutting-edge political science and sociology of law debates about the role of law in EU integration processes, the nature of EU law, new modes of governance and the significance of â€~law in action’ for understanding legal process.
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