Title: Battle lines : eyewitness accounts from Canada's military history /
Authors: Granatstein, J. L.; Hillmer, Norman
Publisher: Thomas Allen Publishers,
Year: 2004
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, Canadian.; World War, 1914-1918 Personal narratives, Canadian; Soldiers Canada Biography; Soldiers Canada Correspondence; Soldiers Canada Diaries.; Canada History, Military Sources.; Canada History, Military Sources.
Abstract: Part of the Peter Terrill Memorial Canadiana Collection.
Contents: Introduction -- Wolfe Takes Quebec, 1759 / Anonymous -- The Battle on the Plains of Abraham / Captain John Knox -- The Assault on Detroit, 1763 / Major Duncan -- The Americans Fail to Take Quebec, 1775-76 / Sir Guy Carleton -- The Indian Way of War / Thomas Anburey -- Fighting with Brock / W.H. Merritt -- Honour and Glory / Anne Prevost -- Corporal Chretien Fights Off the Invaders, May 1813 / Captain Jacques Viger -- The Difficult British-Indian Alliance, 1813 / Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Elliott -- An Officer's Wife on a Campaign in Upper Canada, 1814 / Anonymous -- Seizing the Caroline, 1837 / Andrew Drew -- The Battle of the Windmill, 1838 / Lieutenant Andrew Agnew -- Fighting the Fenians at Ridgeway, 1866 / Captain W.D. Otter -- They Could Teach a Lesson to Many: French Canadians in the Militia, 1871 / Colonel P. Robertson-Ross -- Aboriginal Boatmen on the Nile, 1884 / Colonel Sir William Butler -- The Midland Battalion Moves to Battle, 1885 / Walter F. Stewart --^