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OLIVER HAZARD PERRY AND THE BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE. REVISED EDITION.

By: Altoff, Gerard T. Illustrated by Robyn Opthoff Lilek.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Perry Group, Put-in-Bay, Ohio, 1999, revised edition.:

Seller ID: 19143

99 pp, 9" H, soft cover. ISBN 1887794034 B&w maps/battle plans, portraits. Appendices - American / British Squadron Armament - 10 September 1813; Roll of Honor. Interior - previous owner's small stamp on inside of front cover, otherwise clean an d tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - slight bump at top of spine, tiny soft corner creases on front cover, minor rubbing. Very Good+
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FOUR YEARS ON THE GREAT LAKES, 1813-1816. THE JOURNAL OF LIEUTENANT DAVID WINGFIELD, ROYAL NAVY.

By: Bamford, Don and Carroll, Paul. Foreword by Barry Gough. (Lieutenant David Wingfield).

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Natural Heritage: 2009

Seller ID: 24477

ISBN: 1554883938

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

277 pp, 9" H. B&w photographs, drawings, reproductions, maps, colour plates. "David Wingfield joined the Royal Navy in 1806 at the age of fourteen. His service took him to the Great Lakes during the War of 1812. Captured, he was a POW in the United States for nine months. Following his release, Wingfield had some intriguing adventures on the Upper Great Lakes before returning to England. Once home, he used his handwritten notes, kept during his time in North America, as the basis for an account of his experiences there. This, the only account of the War of 1812 as seen through the eye...
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THE UNIFORMS & HISTORY OF THE SCOTTISH REGIMENTS: BRITAIN - CANADA - AUSTRALIA - NEW ZEALAND - SOUTH AFRICA. 1625 TO THE PRESENT DAY.

By: Barnes, R. Money, Major. In collaboration with C. Kennedy Allen & Lieut. Thomas B. Beatty, Jnr. Foreword by Gen Sir Neil Methuen Ritchie.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Seeley Service: 1969

Seller ID: 23433

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

351 pp, large 8vo (9 7/8" H) - red cloth with black title block/gold lettering on spine. Colour plates and b&w drawings. Contents: Introduction; 1625-89. The Lowland Regiments. Killiecrankie. Dunkeld; 1690-1745. Marlborough's Battles. The Union. The '15 and the '45. The Black Watch. Fontenoy; 1755-83. North America. Highland Regiments. Canadian Militia. Minden. American Independence; 1778-99. Highland Regiments. Fencibles. Yeomanry. India. Napoleonic Wars; 1800-14. American War; 1815. Waterloo; 1815-56. Small Wars. India. S. Africa. Canadian Militia. The Crimea; 1857-81. Indian Muti...
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THE INVASION OF CANADA, 1812-1813.

By: Berton, Pierre.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1980

Seller ID: 30458

ISBN: 0771012357

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

363 pp, 9 3/4" H. Pictorial endpapers, maps/battle plans. Blue (faux?) leather spine with gilt lettering & decoration, gray boards with blue decoration on front board. "This first edition copy - is one of a limited number (unspecified) which have been specially bound and slipcased" from the copyright page. " To America's leaders in 1812, an invasion of Canada seemed the best way to bloody John Bull's nose. It would, as Thomas Jefferson confidently predicted, be 'a mere matter of marching'. How could a nation of eight million fail to subdue a struggling colony of 300,000? Yet,...
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CANADA'S GLORY: BATTLES THAT FORGED A NATION.

By: Bishop, Arthur. Foreword Hon. Hartland de M. Molson.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McGraw-Hill Ryerson: 1996

Seller ID: 25368

ISBN: 0075528096

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

309 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w maps, photographs, reproductions. "Spanning over 200 years of Canadian history and over 30 major battles, (this book) includes: The War of 1812, when Upper Canada and Lower Canada united to defeat the American threat, giving Canadians a true sense of nationalism for the first time; The Boer War in South Africa, from 1899 to 1902 where Canadian troops first fought and won overseas; World War I and its grim trench warfare, including the Battle of Vimy Ridge - a classic in terms of planning and strategy - described in unforgettable detail; World War II, ...
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ELEVEN EXILES: ACCOUNTS OF LOYALISTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

By: Blakeley, Phyllis R. and Grant, John N., eds. (John N. Grant, Phyllis R. Blakeley, Mary Archibald, Helen Caister Robinson, Darrel Butler, Donald Wetmore, Robert Morgan, Mary Beacock Fryer, Robert Allen.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Dundurn, Toronto, 1982.:

Seller ID: 21891

336 pp, 8vo (9" H), soft cover. ISBN 0919670636 B&w maps, photographs, reproductions. "(This) is a personal account of the American Revolution. By focusing on eleven different people who were on the losing side of the American Revolution, and wh o had to make new lives for themselves in what remained of British North America, 'Eleven Exiles' reflects the major themes of those turbulent years. What were the attitudes of these men and women towards the significant social and politic a l i d e a s of the time? What motivated them to leave their homes and move to a wilderness? Wha...
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LOGISTICS AND THE FAILURE OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN AMERICA, 1775-1783.

By: Bowler, R. Arthur.

Price: $125.00 USD

Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, (1975).:

Seller ID: 16835

290 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "....draws on the remarkably complete records of the British government offices concerned with logistics during the Revolutionary War and army service departments such as commissary, quartermaster and barrackmaster generals to provide a full account of the everyday life of the British army and an accurate record of how logistical and administrative problems in America affected the course of the war. His study makes it clear that the British army in America depended almost entirely on Britain for supplies, and that for six years inade...
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GUIDEBOOK TO THE HISTORIC SITES OF THE WAR OF 1812. SECOND EDITION, UPDATED AND ENLARGED.

By: Collins, Gilbert.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Dundurn: 2006

Seller ID: 24478

ISBN: 1550026267

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

389 pp, 9" H. B&w photographs, maps, reproductions, drawings. "There have been guidebooks to military sites before, but no other book has covered the War of 1812 in its entirety. This well-illustrated updated edition covers more than 400 historic sites of the War of 1812, both well-known and obscure, in both Canada and the United States. The author has used old pen-and-ink drawings from the last two centuries to give a 'then and now' feel to the book. Besides giving readers a detailed history of the events that occurred at the sites, (he) describes what they have to offer visitors tod...
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THE WAR OF 1812 ON THE FRONTIER. ADVENTURES IN WESTERN NEW YORK HISTORY, VOLUME IX.

By: Cook, Lura Lincoln.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, 1961.:

Seller ID: 17813

16 pp, 9 3/4" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). Sepiatone illustrations, map on inside rear cover. Interior - light cigarette odor, very light browning to inside of covers, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - ve ry light browning to edges of covers. Very Good
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THE REAL FIGARO: THE EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS.

By: Cox, Cynthia.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Coward-McCann: 1963

Seller ID: 22029

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

212 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w plates. "(A) biography of a brilliant and impudent man living in eighteenth-century France: Caron de Beaumarchais. It was a life of fantastic adventure. Inventor, secret agent, politician, courtier, publisher and supplier of arms to the American colonies, Beaumarchais also wrote plays. Music lovers enchanted by Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro" and Rossini's 'The Barber of Seville' remember that they are based on the brilliant comedies of Beaumarchais. Born Pierre Caron in 1732, Beaumarchais was the son of a prosperous Parisian clockmaker. As a child, h...
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ONTARIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY. PAPERS AND RECORDS. VOL.VIII.

By: Cruickshank, E., Lt.-Col.; Gardiner, H.F; Bruce, G.W., Lt.-Col.; Mills; G.K.; Rogers, R.V.; Ellis, W.S.; McMorine, Rev.; Machar, Agnes Maule; Cumberland, Barlow; MacKenzie, Charles; Gilkison, Augusta Isabella Grant; Carnochan, Janet.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario Historical Society: 1907

Seller ID: 28955

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Good-

228 pp, 9 7/8" H. B&w illustrations. Contents: The Insurrection in the Short Hills in 1838; The Hamiltons of Queenston, Kingston and Hamilton; The Petuns; The Nottawasaga River Route; The First Commission of the Peace for the District of Mecklenburg; Some Events in the History of Kingston; Early History of the Anglican Church in Kingston; Some Epochs in the Story of Old Kingston; The Navies of Lake Ontario in the War of 1812. Notes from the Papers of a Naval Officer then serving on His Majesty's Ships; Cataraqui; Captain William Gilkison. Notes from a Paper; Early Churches in the Niagara...
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THE ORGANIZATION OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

By: Curtis, Edward E.

Price: $95.00 USD

Publisher: AMS Press, New York, 1969, reprinted from the 1926 edition.:

Seller ID: 16833

223 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover (green cloth with gold lettering on spine) - no dust jacket. Tables. Provides details on aspects of administration, recruitment, provisioning and transportation faced by the British Army during the American Revol ution. Previous owners small stamp on front endpapers, minor rubbing to boards, small line mark on rear board. VG+
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THE IRISHMAN IN CANADA.

By: Davin, Nicholas Flood.

Price: $57.50 USD

Publisher: London / Toronto, Samson Low, Marston / Maclear: 1877

Seller ID: 30591

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good-

692 pp + (4) pp publisher's advertisement, 8 3/4" H. Green cloth with gilt & black lettering & decoration on spine and front board, blind stamped decoration on rear board - bevelled boards. Chapter headings: Motive of the "Irishman in Canada"; Antecedents of the Irishman in Canada; Antecedents - Continued - Irishmen in the New World and Australia; Laying the Foundation of Canada; ditto - Continued; The War of 1812-14; Irish Immigration from 1815 to 1837; ditto - Continued; The Rise of Responsible Government in Canada; ditto - Continued; ditto - Continued; ditto - Continued; The C...
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WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY. OLIVER HAZARD PERRY: WILDERNESS COMMODORE.

By: Dillon, Richard.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, New York, 1978.:

Seller ID: 24630

231 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0070169870 Map. "Perry fought perhaps the most perfect single battle in American naval history. More - he insured the success of William Henry Harrison's Northwest Territory campaign, in which he soldiered as a volunteer aide to General Harrison. He ended Tecumseh's plans for an Indian Confederation. He dashed forever Britain's dream of blocking the United States in its westward march. In 1811 Perry was named to create a f l e e t on Lake Erie. He chose Presque Ile Bay as the one harbor safe from the existing Britis...
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THE DEFENCE OF CANADA: IN THE ARMS OF THE EMPIRE, 1760-1939.

By: Dyer, Gwynne and Viljoen, Tina.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1990

Seller ID: 24000

ISBN: 0771029756

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

375 pp, small 4to (10" H). B&w plates, maps. "(G)oes back to the roots of our present defence policies in 1760, when Britain first gained a tenuous hold in Canada. From this point on, our policies have been moulded by tactical alliances - between the English-speaking and French-speaking peoples of Canada, and between the great powers which dominated world politics no less in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries than they do today. (Strips) back the mythologies that now surround the key events in our half-remembered past, showing how fragile was Britain's initial rule of Canada, w...
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GENERAL BROCK.

By: Edgar, Lady.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Morang: 1904

Seller ID: 28875

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

322 pp, 9 1/2" H. Beige cloth with paper title label on spine (a clean, bright duplicate label laid in at the last page at time of publication could be used to 'freshen' the book's appearance), top edge gilt. A volume from the "Edition De Luxe" (limited to four hundred sets - this being from set 47, so numbered) of The Makers of Canada series - signed by the publisher, George Morang, on the limitation page. B&w frontispiece and two maps. Contents: His Birthplace; Service Abroad - Holland; Service Abroad - The Baltic; In Canada; Upper and Lower Canada - 1802; Military Posts; Pre...
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THE KING'S BREAD, 2d RISING: COOKING IN NIAGARA 1726-1815.

By: Farmer, Dennis and Farmer, Carol.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Youngstown, New York, Old Fort Niagara Association: 1989

Seller ID: 30015

ISBN: 0941967093

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

112 pp, 8 1/2" H, soft cover. B&w drawings. Contents: An Introduction; Baking the King's Bread; Eighteenth Century Cooking Techniques; To Provide the King's Bread: Logistics at Fort Niagara; Cuisine a la Canadienne, 1726-1759; The Manner of Victualing the Men, 1759-1775; The King's Bread at Niagara, 1775-1796; To Feed a Soldier of the Republic, 1796-1815; Recipes from the Old Fort; Index of Recipes; Time Line of Foostuffs; Glossary; Sources. Recipes include: Fried Muskrat, Stewed Eel, Passenger Pigeon Pie, Indian Potatoes, Hasty Pudding, Hot Buttered Rum, Spruce Beer, Ration Stew, Michi...
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BRIDGES OF BATTLE: FAMOUS BATTLEFIELD ACTIONS AT BRIDGES AND RIVER CROSSINGS.

By: Featherstone, Donald.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Arms and Armour: 1998

Seller ID: 23916

ISBN: 1854094491

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

256 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w plates. "From more than 2,000 years of military history, (the author) has selected some one hundred examples of battles centred on river crossings. They range in size fom small-scale actions such as the battle for Powick Bridge in the early months of the English Civil War to massive, army-scale operations including the final crossing of the Rhine at Remagen during the Second World War. One of the biggest battles during the Napoleonic Wars - indeed, the biggest battle to that date with more than 300,000 men in combat - was fought across the Danube in...
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BRIDGES OF BATTLE: FAMOUS BATTLEFIELD ACTIONS AT BRIDGES AND RIVER CROSSINGS.

By: Featherstone, Donald.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Arms and Armour: 1998

Seller ID: 29417

ISBN: 1854094491

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

MILITARY HISTORY: LECTURES DELIVERED AT TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

By: Fortescue, J.W.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1914

Seller ID: 18946

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

207 pp + ads, 6 5/8" H, red cloth with black lettering on spine and front board, black decoration on front board. Contents: Preface; Military History: Its Scope and Definition; British Military History; British Colonial Campaigns; British Campaigns in India; Index. Moderate to heavy browning on free endpapers - light on pastedowns, very light browning to pages, edges of textblock browned, light soiling and browning to boards, very light edgewear, light wrinkling at top of spine, lightfading/browning to spine. Good
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Category: Military - American Revolution/War 1812