Red Coats & Grey Jackets: The Battle of Chippawa, 5 July, 1814"... the definitive analysis of the battle of Chippawa. Donald Graves establishes its historical background, describes the opposing armies, brings them into battle, and assesses the results, without wasting a word ? yet his account of the battle combines high colour and exact detail. You find yourself alternately in the generals' boots and the privates' brogans, in all the smoke, shock and uproar of a short-range, stand-up fire fight." - John Elting, author of Swords Around a Throne: Napoleon's Grande Armee |
Contents
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| 17 | |
| 33 | |
Land Warfare in 1814 | 47 |
The Invasion of Canada 34 July 1814 | 65 |
The Morning of 5 July 1814 | 79 |
The Fight in the Woods | 91 |
8 Why these are Regulars Battle on the Plain I | 101 |
The Aftermath | 133 |
11 The Long and Bloody Summer of 1814 | 147 |
The Fate of the Battlefield 18141993 | 157 |
Appendices | 163 |
Notes | 189 |
Bibliography | 199 |
Index | 206 |
Battle on the Plain II | 117 |
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19th Light Dragoons 1st Foot 2nd Lincoln 8th Foot action American army Archives of Canada Armstrong attack battalion battle of Chippawa Benson Lossing bridge British army Brown Buffalo camp Canadian canister Captain casualties Chippawa River command courtesy National Archives courtesy Parks Canada Cruikshank Eleventh Infantry enemy Erie farm Ferguson fire flank force Fort Erie Fort George Fort Niagara fought George gunners guns Hist howitzer James Jesup John Journal July killed Left Division Lieutenant Colonel light infantry Lundy's Lane Major Memoirs Merritt military militia musket native warriors Niagara River Norton numbers NYSL officers ordered Pictorial Field Book plain Porter to Stone position Prevost Private Queenston ranks Riall to Drummond Right Division river road Ropes's round shot Royal Artillery Sackets Harbor Sergeant soldiers Street's Creek Thomas Towson's troops Twenty-Fifth Infantry Twenty-First Infantry U.S. Army United Upper Canada Ussher's weapon William Winfield Scott woods wounded York