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A Dirty, Trifling Piece of Business
- Volume 1: The Revolutionary War as Waged from Canada in 1781
Engelsk Paperback
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A Dirty, Trifling Piece of Business

- Volume 1: The Revolutionary War as Waged from Canada in 1781
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By 1781, the sixth year of the American rebellion, British strategic focus had shifted from the northern states to concentrate in the south. Canada’s governor, Frederick Haldimand, was responsible for the defence of the Crown’s largest colony against the threat of Franco-American invasion, while assisting overall British strategy. He cleverly employed his sparse resources to vigorously raid the rebels’ frontiers and create anxiety, disruption, and deprivation, as his Secret Service undermined their morale with invasion rumours and threatened their Union by negotiating with the independent republic of Vermont to return to the British fold.

Haldimand flooded New York’s Mohawk and Schoharie valleys with Indian and Loyalist raiders and, once the danger of invasion passed, he dispatched two coordinated expeditions south. One was launched onto Lake Champlain to alarm Albany and further the secret talks with Vermont. The second struck deep into enemy territory, fought a battle at Johnstown, and retreated precipitately. The rebels effectively countered both expeditions.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
504
ISBN-13:
9781554884209
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1554884209
Udg. Dato:
21 maj 2009
Længde:
30mm
Bredde:
153mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Dundurn Group Ltd
Oplagsdato:
21 maj 2009
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