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The invasion of Canada by the Americans, 1775-1776 : as told through Jean-Baptiste Badeaux's Three Rivers journal and New York Captain William Goforth's letters /
"The Invasion of Canada by the Americans, 1775-1776 offers two significant first-hand accounts of the Revolutionary War. These previously untranslated and unpublished primary sources provide contrasting viewpoints from a Loyalist French-Canadian administrative official, Jean-Baptiste Badeaux, a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Albany, NY :
State University of New York Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Illustrations and Maps; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations Used in Footnotes; Introduction; Historical Prelude; Chronology; 1774; 1775; 1776; Jean-Baptiste Badeaux-A Short Biography; William Goforth-A Short Biography; The Stage-Three Rivers, Quebec, 1775-1776; Translator's Notes; Summer 1775; Letter from Congress; Capture of Carillon, of Crown Point, and the Pillage of Fort St. John's; September 1775; Poor Disposition of Montreal District; Beaubien; The Affair of Longue Pointe; William Goforth Letters-September and 1 October; Editor's Notes on William Goforth's Correspondence
- Prelude: NEW-YORK JOURNAL, 7 September 1775Letter: William Goforth to Alexander McDougall; October 1775; Col. Maclean Wants to Force Nicolet to Take Arms; Desertion of Colonel Maclean's Troops and Betrayal of the Chambly Inhabitants; Carleton's Defeat at Longeuil; William Goforth Letters-October; Letter: William Goforth to Alexander McDougall; November 1775; Colonel Maclean Abandons Sorel; Col. Maclean Stops in 3-Rs2; The Trifluviens5 Decide to Surrender to the Americans; Delegation from Three Rivers to General Montgomery; Gen. Carleton's Return
- In 3-Rs, The English Wish to Capitulate SeparatelyThe Americans' Bad Faith; The Canadians Are More Feared than the Americans; Walker; William Goforth Letters-November; Letter: William Goforth to Alexander McDougall; December 1775; Loiseau; La Rose; December 31st; William Goforth Letters-December and 1 January; "Extract of a letter from Montreal, dated December 17, 1775."; New-York Journal, 18 January 1776; Letter: William Goforth to Alexander McDougall; January 1776; 1776 January-American Severity; Wiliam Goforth Letters-January; Letter: William Goforth to Alexander McDougall
- Letter: William Goforth to Alexander McDougall"Extract of a letter from Montreal, Jan. 27," New-York Journal, 15 February 1776; February 1776; Commissions License to Sell Liquor; New Commissions; William Goforth Letters-February; Letter: William Goforth to Alexander McDougall; Letter: William Goforth to Benjamin Franklin; March 1776; Accusation against Sir Crévier; Deserters; The Americans in Montreal Refuse to March; The Americans' Misery in Three Rivers; The Americans Demand Free Labor; The Americans Don't Pay Their Hauling Fees; Sortie from Quebec; La Rose; American Bad Faith
- The Curé Bailly AffairThe Canadians Rise Up against the Americans; William Goforth and Other Letters-March 1776; Letter: William Goforth to Reverend John Gano [forwarded to Alexander McDougall]; "New-York, May 1. Extract of a letter from an officer in the Continental Army, dated Trois Riviers, March 24, 1776," Constitutional Gazette (New York) Saturday, May 4, 1776; Letter: William Goforth to Alexander McDougall; Letter: Jonathan Brogden to William Goforth [enclosed in previous]; Letter: George Measam82 to Alexander McDougall, Montreal; Extracts from a Letter of Captain Goforth; April 1776