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The invasion of Canada by the Americans, 1775-1776 : as told through Jean-Baptiste Badeaux's Three Rivers journal and New York Captain William Goforth's letters / edited by Mark R. Anderson ; translated by Teresa L. Meadows.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Goforth, William, 1731-1807.
- Badeaux, J. B. (Jean Baptiste), 1741-1796.
- Canadian Invasion, 1775-1776.
- Badeaux, J. B. (Jean Baptiste), 1741-1796--Diaries.
- Badeaux, J. B.
- Goforth, William, 1731-1807--Correspondence.
- Goforth, William.
- Canadian Invasion, 1775-1776--Sources.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Correspondence.
- Diaries.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- xlvii, 205 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Jean-Baptiste Badeaux's Three Rivers journal
- New York Captain William Goforth's letters
- Jean-Baptiste Badeaux's Three Rivers journal and New York Captain William Goforth's letters
- Invasion du Canada par les américains en 1775.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Presents never before published and translated Canadian Loyalist and American Patriot first-hand accounts of the Quebec Campaign of the Revolutionary War. The Invasion of Canada by the Americans, 1775-1776 offers two significant, insightful, and intriguing first-hand accounts of the Revolutionary War. These previously untranslated and unpublished primary sources provide contrasting viewpoints from a Loyalist French-Canadian administrative official, Jean-Baptiste Badeaux, and a Patriot Continental officer, William Goforth. Compelling personal interactions with friends and neighbors, and local and provincial-level leaders--as occupier and occupied--are documented. Their stories climax during the two-month period in early 1776 when Goforth was military governor of Three Rivers and Badeaux served as his somewhat reluctant interpreter and unofficial advisor. Including their experiences with Benedict Arnold and Quebec's Governor Guy Carleton, as well as letters to Benjamin Franklin and John Jay, this unique book provides diverse insights into the invasion of Canada and its immediate impact on the people on both sides of the revolution. Mark R. Anderson is an independent historian and author of The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony: America's War of Liberation in Canada, 1774-1776. Teresa L. Meadows is Associate Professor of French and Visual and Performing Arts at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
- Contents:
- Summer 1775 1
- September 1775 7
- October 1775 21
- November 1775 35
- December 1775 47
- January 1776 55
- February 1776 65
- March 1776 79
- April 1776 109
- May 1776 145
- June 1776 163.
- Notes:
- Translated from the French.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438460031
- 1438460031
- OCLC:
- 909025745
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