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British Generals in the War of 1812:

High Command in the Canadas
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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, Jan 1, 1999 - Biography & Autobiography - 296 pages
In British Generals in the War of 1812 Wesley Turner takes a fresh look at five British Generals - Sir George Prevost, Isaac Brock, Roger Sheaffe, Baron Francis de Rottenburg, and Gordon Drummond - who held the highest civil and military command in the Canadas. He considers their formative experiences in the British Army and on active service in European and West Indian theatres and evaluates their roles in the context of North American conditions, which were very different from those of Europe.
  

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Contents

Mr Madisons War
3
1 Generals and Generalship
9
The Leadership of LieutenantGeneral Sir George Prevost
24
The Leadership of MajorGeneral Sir Isaac Brock
58
The Leadership of MajorGeneral Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe
84
The Leadership of MajorGeneral Baron Francis de Rottenburg
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The Leadership of LieutenantGeneral Sir Gordon Drummond
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7 Comparing Generals
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The Military Careers of British and American Officers in the War of 1812
160
Correspondence between the Commander of the Forces and Captain Downie
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Prevosts Reports to Earl Bathurst
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Abbreviations Used in the Sources
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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Copyright

Chronology of the War of 1812
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About the author (1999)

Dr. Wesley B. Turner is Associate Professor of History at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. His previous publications include Life in Upper Canada (1980); The War of 1812 in the Niagara Peninsula (1981); The War of 1812: The War for Canada (1982); and Album of Upper Canada (1987). He is also the contributor of several biographies in The Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Turner was president of the Ontario Historical Society (1983-84), and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the St. Catharines Historical Museum (1985).

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TitleBritish Generals in the War of 1812: High Command in the Canadas
AuthorW. Turner
PublisherMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1999
ISBN0773567704, 9780773567702
Length296 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / General
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