Wampum Denied: Procter's War of 1812

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1997 - 450 páginas
This formative history takes a new look at a dramatic conflict-the war on the Detroit frontier in 1812-13. Powerful key players (Procter, Tecumseh and Brock), their disparate war aims, and the "all or nothing" character of the campaigns they waged still seem larger than life. Yet Sandy Antal's careful reconstruction of Native and national aspiration, vested colonial interest, and territorial aggression, reveals motives and expedients that were as often mundane as heroic. A Wampum Denied reassesses the much-maligned career of Henry Procter, commander of the British forces, traces the Canadian/British/Native side of the conflict (amid a literature dominated by the American view), and casts new light on an allied military strategy that very nearly succeeded, but when it failed, failed spectacularly.

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Clouds of
29
Procter Arrives
67
The Cession of Michigan
91
Stalemate III
111
Calm Before the Storm
147
Frenchtown
161
After Frenchtown
191
Chase on the Thames
315
Finale at Moraviantown
331
Consequences
355
Aftermath
371
PostMoraviantown Sketches of Combatants
401
Bibliography
413
Index
427
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Sobre el autor (1997)

Sandy Antal, co-author of Duty Nobly Done, became a teacher after retiring from twenty years as a major in the Canadian Forces. He now lives in Cameron, Ontario.

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