For Honour's Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an

For Honour's Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace

In the tradition of Margaret MacMillanâ€™s Paris 1919 comes a new consideration of Canadaâ€™s most famous war and the Treaty of Ghent that unsatisfactorily concluded it, from one of this countryâ€™s premier military historians.

In the Canadian imagination, the War of 1812 looms large. It was a war in which British and Indian troops prevailed in almost all of the battles, in which the Americans were unable to hold any of the land they fought for, in which a young woman named Laura Secord raced over the Niagara peninsula to warn of American plans for attack (though how she knew has never been discovered), and in which Canadian troops burned down the White House. Competing American claims insist to this day that, in fact, it was they who were triumphant.

But where does the truth lie? Somewhere in the middle, as is revealed in this major new reconsideration from one of Canadaâ€™s master historians. Drawing on never-before-seen archival material, Zuehlke paints a vibrant picture of the warâ€™s major battles, vividly re-creating life in the trenches, the horrifying day-to-day manoeuvring on land and sea, and the dramatic negotiations in the Flemish city of Ghent that brought the war to an unsatisfactory end for both sides. By focusing on the fraught dispute in which British and American diplomats quarrelled as much amongst themselves as with their adversaries, Zuehlke conjures the compromises and backroom deals that yielded conventions resonating in relations between the United States and Canada to this very day.
Country USA
Manufacturer Knopf Canada
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2006-09-19
UnitCount 1
Format International Edition
EANs 9780676977059

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Knopf Canada
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2006-09-19
UnitCount	1
Format	International Edition
EANs	9780676977059

For Honour's Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace

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