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  • The Acadian

    Jacques

    In 1708 an orphanage in Paris, France, is visited by a government official seeking male volunteers, 12 years old and up, to join the French army and be sent to Port Royal, Nova Scotia, to help defend the fort against a threatened British invasion. Thirteen-year-old Jacques Maillet, protagonist of this true adventure story, immediately joins up. He and his orphaned friends are given military ... Read more

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  • Montcalm And Wolfe

    Two Men Who Forever Changed the Course of Canadian History

    by Roch Carrier ...
    The national bestseller that tells the story of Wolfe and Montcalm and the Plains of AbrahamIn September 1759, a small band of British troops led by James Wolfe scaled the tall cliff overlooking a farmer’s field owned by Abraham Martin and overpowered the French garrison that protected the area, allowing the bulk of the British army to ascend the cliff behind and attack the French who, led by ... Read more

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  • War of 1812: The Niagara Frontier, Illustrated

    by B J Lossing ...
    The story of the war along the Niagara River between Lakes Ontario and Erie. ... Read more

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  • Napoleon in America

    by Shannon Selin ...
    What if Napoleon Bonaparte had escaped from St. Helena and wound up in the United States?The year is 1821. Former French Emperor Napoleon has been imprisoned on a dark wart in the Atlantic since his defeat at Waterloo in 1815. Rescued in a state of near-death by Gulf pirate Jean Laffite, Napoleon lands in New Orleans, where he struggles to regain his health aided by voodoo priestess Marie Laveau. ... Read more

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  • Jeanne Dugas of Acadia

    A Novel

    Descended from one of the three most prominent families in Acadia, Jeanne Dugas (1731-1817) and her family lived for more than thirty years under the threat of capture and deportation by the British militia and attacks by pirates and privateers. ... Read more

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  • Heroes of the Acadian Resistance

    The Story of Joseph Beausoleil Broussard and Pierre II Surette 1702-1765

    Heroes of the Acadian Resistance tells the unique and little-known story of the young men who led an Acadian resistance in 18th century Nova Scotia. They fought valiantly in a guerilla campaign against the British to save their homes and families from destruction and deportation.Their battle was against a form of ethnic cleansing that saw British soldiers burn every remnant of the Acadian ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Wolfe and Montcalm

    Their Lives, Their Times, and the Fate of a Continent

    by Joy Carroll ...
    A fascinating profile of two generals who shaped history.In 1759, after the battle on the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec City, the English general James Wolfe and the French general, Louis-Joseph Montcalm lay mortally wounded, each hit by a sniper's bullet. Neither could know that the outcome on the Plains of Abraham would shape the history of both the United States and Canada.After researching ... Read more

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  • Samuel de Champlain

    Translated by Jonathan Kaplansky ...
    Series Book 13 - Quest Biography
    A navigator and cartographer, Samuel de Champlain’s passion was for America, which he struggled to explore and have recognized. He still dreamed of reaching India, with its spices and its many riches, by continuing further to the West. But the land called New France – a harsh land from India – was his greatest love. He defended it fiercely to those in power in France and was responsible for its ... Read more

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  • Phantom Ships

    A Novel

    Novelist and poet Claude Le Bouthillier draws on his Acadian and New Brunswick heritage to create Phantom Ships. First published in 1989 as Le Feu du Mauvais Temps, it gives an account of the end of the French Empire in Canada as experienced by the authors own ancestor, Joseph Le Bouthillier. ... Read more

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  • The Retreat

    Translated by Will Hobson ...
    From the author of The Battle: A novel that brings French history to life as Napoleon moves in on Russia—where the ultimate test awaits.The French army stands at the gates of Moscow. Exhausted and demoralized, Napoleon's men are a mere fraction of the four-hundred-thousand-strong force that crossed the river Niemen in the summer, just three months earlier. Still, the sight of this famous city ... Read more

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  • The War of 1812: Winfield Scott

    by B J Lossing ...
    A look at the early career of Winfield Scott and his heroic actions during the War of 1812 on the Canadian Border. ... Read more

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  • The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812

    The War of 1812, like the American Revolution, was a valiant contest for survival on the part of the spirit of freedom. It was essentially akin to the world-wide struggle of a century later, when sons of the old foemen of 1812--sons of the painted Indians and of the Kentucky pioneers in fringed buckskins, sons of the New Hampshire ploughboys clad in homespun, sons of the Canadian militia and the ... Read more

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