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 | |
The Right Division British Army in North America | 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 |
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Battle on the Plain II | 117 |
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Red Coats & Grey Jackets: The Battle of Chippawa, 5 July, 1814 Donald E. Graves,Derek McLellan Limited preview - 1994 |
Common terms and phrases
19th Light Dragoons 1st Foot 2nd Lincoln 8th Foot action American army Archives of Canada Armstrong attack battalion battle of Chippawa Benson Lossing bridge Brigade British army Brown camp Canadian canister Captain casualties Chippawa River command courtesy National Archives courtesy Parks Canada Cruikshank Eleventh Infantry enemy Erie farm Fenton’s Ferguson field fighting fire fired firing first five flank force Fort Erie Fort George Fort Niagara fought George gunners guns Hist howitzer jackets Jacob Brown James Jesup John journal July Left Division Lieutenant Colonel light infantry Lundy's Lane Major Memoirs Merritt military militia musket native warriors Niagara River Norton numbers NYSL officers ordered Pearson Phineas Riall plain Porter to Stone Prevost Private Queenston ranks Riall to Drummond Right Division river road round shot Royal Artillery Sackets Harbor Sergeant soldiers Street’s Creek Towson troops Twenty-Fifth Infantry Twenty-First Infantry United Upper Canada weapon Winfield Scott woods wounded York