Military Histories: Indian Allies

University Of California Davis Dept: On the eve of the War of 1812, Americans were, in fact, the majority in Upper Canada Ontario . It was enough to make the British despair of holding the colony, and prepare to cut it loose and withdraw into Lower Canada Quebec . The American factor also contributed to the quaint U.S. delusion that liberating Canada would be a cakewalk, according to The Star. Taylor, who teaches American and Canadian History at the University of California, Davis, is previous author of The Divided Ground Indians and settlers on the northern borderland of the American Revolution , Liberty Men and Great Proprietors the Maine frontier , and the Pulitzer-winning William Cooper s Town novelist James Fenimore Cooper s father and the settlement of Cooperstown, N.Y. and it may be just a trifle ironic that Ontario, a province that prides itself on its British heritage or used to , was originally settled by Americans. No, not just the original 6,000 Loyalists who found asylum here after the American Revolution, but also an additional 30,000 Americans who came up between 1792 and 1812. But does it also make the War of 1812 a civil war? We all know the American Revolution was a civil war between the English-speaking inhabitants of British North America, but now Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor thinks the War of 1812 was too. Personally, I think that s a bit of a stretch, but his The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies is a truly spellbinding narrative. Unlike other books on the War of 1812, which tend to be military histories, The Civil War of 1812 is about the hearts and minds of the people who planned it, fought it and lived through it. Almost every page brings a revelation. As reported in the news.
@t james fenimore cooper, irish rebels