The siege of Fort Cumberland, 1776 : an episode in the American Revolution / Ernest Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, Ernest, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

United States.

Fort Cumberland (N.B.)--Siege, 1776.

Fort Cumberland (N.B.).

Physical Description:

xv, 302 p. : ill., maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Clarke describes events in Nova Scotia leading up to the siege of Fort Cumberland by the Continental army in 1776 and argues that from the beginning of hostilities Nova Scotians' primary loyalty was to Britain. He examines the attitudes of the various players in the region - New England planters, Acadians, Native peoples, Yorkshiremen, and Scots-Irish - and their responses to the call to arms issued by the revolutionary forces in the thirteen colonies. Clarke is the first to take the Nova Scotia patriots seriously and explain their motives instead of damning them as rebels. An in-depth study of a British colony's reaction to and ultimate rejection of independence, The Siege of Fort Cumberland will be of great interest to colonial historians in Canada and the United States.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface: Tantramar Revisited

Introduction

Revolution Indigenous

Revolution Imported

The Shepody Outpost

Cumberland Creek Raid

The Fort Attack

The Vulture Reinforcement

Battle of Blazing Barns

The Camphill Rout

Epilogue

The Patriots

The Royal Fencible Americans

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-294) and index.

ISBN:

9786612853494

9781282853492

128285349X

9780773565517

0773565515

OCLC:

144083759

Publisher Number:

2027/heb00109 hdl