Battlefields of Canada
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 1986
- Category
- Canada, General, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550020076
- Publish Date
- Sep 1986
- List Price
- $18.99
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459711174
- Publish Date
- Sep 1986
- List Price
- $7.99
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Description
Battlefields of Canada encompasses nearly 300 years of history and features sixteen of the most significant Canadian battles as well as some of the most comic or bizarre. Profusely illustrated with sketches, photographs, and detailed maps, each chapter sets the context of the battle in terms of the struggle of which it was part, and then describes the hour-by-hour events. A brief conclusion to each chapter assesses the consequences for the victors and losers, assigning its place in Canadian history. A chronology provides a comprehensive list of every Canadian battle since the early 1600s.
About the author
Mary Beacock Fryer is a well-known expert on Upper Canadian history. She has written a trilogy on the Simcoe family: Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe: A Biography, Our Young Soldier: Lieutenant Francis Simcoe, 6 June 1791–6 April 1812, and John Graves Simcoe: 1752–1806, A Biography. Among Fryer's other books are Escape, Beginning Again, and Buckskin Pimpernel.
Editorial Reviews
"Fryer does a womanlike job of describing the battles and the period illustrations and maps greatly add to the useful volume."
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