Defender of Canada, Volume 40

By John R. Grodzinski,

Book cover of Defender of Canada, Volume 40: Sir George Prevost and the War of 1812

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When war broke out between Great Britain and the United States in 1812, Sir George Prevost, captain general and governor in chief of British North America, was responsible for defending a group of North American colonies that stretched as far as the distance from Paris to Moscow. He also commandedā€¦

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John Grodzinski was a career army officer in the Canadian military and a professor of history at the RMC. He is also a personal friend of many years. His subject, Sir George Prevost, is one of the neglected heroes of the War of 1812. He was neglected at the time, as the attention of the Government in London was far more engaged by Napoleon than President Madison; neglected thereafter in favour of more glamorous subjects. But it was Prevostā€™s defensive plans and actions that preserved Canada from the American invasions of 181. Much went wrong as well as right thereafter,ā€¦

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