1812 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
#history
#WarOf1812
#MilitaryHistory

"This hateful American #War has frighten'd us not a little — [New Brunswick] has not as yet suffer'd much by it — But there is horrible work in upper Canada"

https://preserve.lib.unb.ca/wayback/20141205161012/http://atlanticportal.hil.unb.ca/acva/loyalistwomen/en/documents/browse/view.php?id=39_41&mode=dpl

#NewBrunswick #UpperCanada #WomenInHistory

1812 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
#history
#WarOf1812
#MilitaryHistory

St. Andrews, New Brunswick learns from #Eastport, Maine that #war has begun, and the latter has decided "to preserve a good understanding with [N.B.] inhabitants"

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YFjsv_pBGBYC&dat=18120709&printsec=frontpage
Pg. 2 of 2 (righthand page, 1st column, bottom)

#NewBrunswick

See also: New Brunswick - History - Development
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/new-brunswick

1812 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
#history
#WarOf1812
#MilitaryHistory

Unmarried 18–30-year-old Quebec City militiamen are deployed and there are some "murmurs" against the burden falling on "one class of the society"

https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269497
Pg. 2 (4th column)
See also: Young men are getting married to gain draft exemption
https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269534 (pg. 2, 3rd column)
disponible en français

#QuebecCity #militia

See also: Militia Acts
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/militia-acts
The Coloured Corps: Black Canadians and the War of 1812
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-coloured-corps-african-canadians-and-the-war-of-1812

I finished book 16 which was Peter Englund's, "The Beauty and the Sorrow". This is a WWI book with a unique way of telling the story. The author followed the writings of 20 very different individuals from both sides of the war. This was a interesting and unique perspective of the war.

#Reading #Books #JimsBooks #BookLog #WWI #WWIBooks #MilitaryHistory

Salisbury Journal: Dame Vera Lynn’s ‘vast wartime archive’ joins Imperial War Museum collection. “The collection includes Dame Vera’s personal diary from her 1944 tour of India, the contract for her BBC radio show Sincerely Yours, 160 wartime contracts for more than 200 engagements, letters from Dame Vera to her husband Harry Lewis, and items of clothing from her Entertainments National […]

1812 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
#history
#WarOf1812
#MilitaryHistory

From the (Washington, D.C.) National Intelligencer: In "no country [have #commerce and #war] operated as powerfully in raising colonies to wealth and importance as in the Canadas"

https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660989
Pg. 402

#LowerCanada #UpperCanada #colony #WashingtonDC

Китай розпочав війну проти В’єтнаму
https://buymeacoffee.com/valdeloir/kelijesude

#КитайськоВєтнамськаВійна #17лютого1979 #ІсторіяАзії #ВоєннаІсторія #Геополітика
#SinoVietnameseWar #February17_1979 #AsianHistory #MilitaryHistory #Geopolitics

1812 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
#history
#WarOf1812
#MilitaryHistory

"To the Inhabitants of Canada; Countrymen[:] Reality is threatened with a total change. We are menaced to be cast into the abyss of American democracy! [and its] angry passions"

https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269543
Pg. 2 (2nd column)

#AmericanDemocracy

See also: Parliamentary Democracy in Canada - Colonial History: Toward Responsible Government
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/parliamentary-democracy-in-canada
Family Compact
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/family-compact

1812 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
#history
#WarOf1812
#MilitaryHistory

Gov. Gen. Prevost notes "the complete discomfiture of the plans of the enemy" in the British victories at Michilimackinac, Detroit and Queenston Heights

https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_00938_23/12
Pgs. 14, 16
disponible en français

See also: A description of the action at Michilimakinac
https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660970 (pg. 271)
and at Detroit
https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660972 (pg. 277)
and at Queenston
https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660984 (pgs. 339 + 342)

#DetroitHistory #Mackinaw

See also: Fort Michilimackinac - Fort Michilimackinac Captured
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/fort-michilimackinac
Capture of Detroit, War of 1812
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/capture-of-detroit-war-of-1812
Battle of Queenston Heights
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/battle-of-queenston-heights