The Lives and Times of the Patriots: An Account of the Rebellion in Upper Canada, 1837-1838 and of the Patriot Agitation in the United States, 1837-1842The Lives and Times of the Patriots was first published in 1938, the centennial of the Upper Canadian Rebellion and the subsequent Patriot raids over the border from the United States. The Canadian part of the agitation for constitutional and social reform, long a subject of controversy and bitterness, is now generally considered to be, as Sir Wilfrid Laurier put it, a fight "for constitutional rights, not against the British Crown"; but very little in the American movement, allegedly in sympathy, can be justified, its aims and conduct being no better than—and often interior to—the Fenian Raids of some thirty years later. The story of the events and their consequences is unfolded from a wide coverage of source materials, and described from both Tory and Reform, Loyalist and Patriot point of view. Exciting trails and escapes from jails and forts follow one another in quick succession, and the lives and experiences of participants are traced around the world to the prison colony of Van Diemen's Land and home again, as diaries, letters, and narratives tell their story, supplemented and verified by official documents, contemporary newspapers, obituary notices, and tombstone inscriptions. Rare illustrations complement this careful account of what must be taken to be, with all its deficiencies, a notable episode in the history of human freedom. |
Contents
CHARLES DUNCOMBE AND THE CONCENTRATION AT SCOTLAND | |
AMONG THE REFUGEES | |
NAVY ISLAND AND THE Caroline | |
THE SCHOONER Anne AND BOIS BLANC ISLAND | |
THE UNITED STATES AND THE PATRIOT | |
JAILS AND CONVICTSHIPS | |
VAN DIEMENS LAND | |
THE EXILES RETURN | |
A Resolution Declaring Mackenzie Unworthy of a Seat in the Legislative Assembly | |
B The Family Compact | |
1 The Flag of Truce | |
2 Deposition of Samuel Lount | |
DONALD MCLEOD AND FIGHTING ISLAND | |
THE PELEE ISLAND RAID XI THE SHORT HILLS AND ST CLAIR RAIDS | |
JOHN MONTGOMERY AND THE JAIL DELIVERY FROM FORT HENRY | |
EDWARD THELLER AND THE CELEBRATED ESCAPE FROM THE CITADEL OF QUEBEC | |
THE BATTLE OF THE WINDMILL | |
THE BATTLE OF WINDSOR | |
BILLJOHNSTON AND THE BURNING OF THE Sir Robert Peel | |
BEN LETT AND THE COBOURG CONSPIRACY | |
Proclamations of Sir Francis Bond Head E The Cobourg Rifles 1837 | |
G Upper Canadians Arrested and Imprisoned H 1 The Navy Island Proclamation | |
Navy Island Correspondence | |
The St Clair Raids | |
O Documents Relative to the Battle of Windsor | |
P Documents Relative to the Return of Prisoners from Van Diemens | |
INDEX | |
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