Canadian Confederate Cruiser

Author : John G. Langley
Publisher : Nimbus Publishing (CN)
ISBN 13 : 9781771086608
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canadian Confederate Cruiser written by John G. Langley and published by Nimbus Publishing (CN). This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian Confederate Cruiser tells the story of an elegant but unpretentious steamer that bore witness to the birth of a nation. In 1864, the Queen Victoria took the Fathers of Confederation from Quebec to Charlottetown and back. Long before she could be given the recognition she deserved, the Queen Victoria was lost in a hurricane off Cape Hatteras, the crew and passengers rescued by the American brig Ponvert. That incident and the events that followed it put the lost vessel into the international limelight and tweaked diplomatic relations between Canada and the United States. John Langley, the author behind Steam Lion, the award-winning biography of Samuel Cunard, documents the life of this steamer and the unlikely cross-border tug-of-war that developed over her bell. In telling the Queen Victoria's story, Langley provides a better understanding of the social and political forces that led to Confederation, explaining the pivotal choices that were made.

Author : John Bell
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 155488988X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebels on the Great Lakes written by John Bell and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1863–1864, Confederate naval operations were launched from Canada against America, with an unexpected impact on North America’s future. Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, a myth has persisted that the hijackers entered the United States from Canada. This is completely untrue. Nevertheless, there was a time during the U.S. Civil War when attacks on America were launched from Canada, but the aggressors were mostly fellow Americans engaged in a secessionist struggle. Among the attacks were three daring naval commando expeditions against a prisoner-of-war camp on Johnsons Island in Lake Erie. These Confederate operations on the Great Lakes remain largely unknown. However, some of the people involved did make more indelible marks in history, including a future Canadian prime minister, a renowned Victorian war correspondent, a beloved Catholic poet, a notorious presidential assassin, and a son of the abolitionist John Brown. The improbable events linking these figures constitute a story worth telling and remembering. Rebels on the Great Lakes offers the first full account of the Confederate naval operations launched from Canada in 186364, describing forgotten military actions that ultimately had an unexpected impact on North Americas future.

Author : Cheryl MacDonald
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 1459411234
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gunboats on the Great Lakes 1866-68 written by Cheryl MacDonald and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gunboats on the Great Lakes tells the story of the three British gunboats which patrolled the Great Lakes as the politicians finalized the Confederation deal, and Irish nationalists recruited Civil War veterans and staged armed raids on Canada. The Fenians, a secret society of Irish immigrants in the United States, decided to attack Canada with the aim of seizing power in the remaining colonies and using them as bargaining chips with Britain. Their ultimate goal was Irish independence. Historian Cheryl MacDonald explores the impact of the Fenian attacks on average citizens, and examines how gunboat diplomacy — in this case, the presence of three British vessels — helped reassure thousands of Canadians and guarantee Canada's territorial sovereignty between 1866 and 1868. Drawing on hundreds of newspaper articles, government reports, and the logbooks of the Britomart, Cherub and Heron, as well as archive photos from the period, this book focuses on events that will intrigue any history buff.

Author : John W. (John William) Headley
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290746120
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confederate Operations in Canada and New York written by John W. (John William) Headley and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : John W. Headley
Publisher : [Alexandria, Va.] : Time-Life Books
ISBN 13 : 9780809442836
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confederate Operations in Canada and New York written by John W. Headley and published by [Alexandria, Va.] : Time-Life Books. This book was released on 1906 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ralph Lindeman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476692785
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confederates from Canada written by Ralph Lindeman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unable to achieve sustained military success in the Civil War, the Confederacy tried a daring strategy in 1864--commando-style raids into northern states from Canada. Taking advantage of the undefended border, rebels hit targets along the Great Lakes, where growing antiwar sentiment was an election-year problem for the Lincoln administration. Revisiting one of the forgotten chapters of the war, this is a deeply-researched history of the South's operations in Canada. One of the most significant raids is covered in detail for the first time: Virginia planter turned Confederate agent John Yates Beall's attempt to liberate 2,700 Confederate officers from a prison camp on Lake Erie.

Author : John Williams Headley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780598748355
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confederate Operations in Canada and New York written by John Williams Headley and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John William Headley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confederate Operations in Canada and New York written by John William Headley and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dwight Hughes
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612518427
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Confederate Biography written by Dwight Hughes and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From October 1864 to November 1865, the officers of the CSS Shenandoah carried the Confederacy and the conflict of the Civil War around the globe through extreme weather, alien surroundings, and the people they encountered. Her officers were the descendants of Deep South plantation aristocracy and Old Dominion first families: a nephew of Robert E. Lee, a grandnephew of founder George Mason, and descendants of one of George Washington's generals and of an aid to Washington. One was even an uncle of a young Theodore Roosevelt and another was son-in-law to Raphael Semmes. Shenandoah's mission-commerce raiding (guerre de course)-was a central component of U.S. naval and maritime heritage, a profitable business, and a watery form of guerrilla warfare. These Americans stood in defense of their country as they understood it, pursuing a difficult and dangerous mission in which they succeeded spectacularly after it no longer mattered. This is a biography of a ship and a cruise, and a microcosm of the Confederate-American experience.

Author : Robin W. Winks
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773518193
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Civil War Years written by Robin W. Winks and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition of a work first published in 1960 under the title Canada and the United States: The Civil War Years by the Johns Hopkins Press. It examines the impact of the American Civil War on Canada, especially on the movement toward Confederation, offers a survey of Canadian public opinion on the war, and discusses the role of Confederate sympathizers in Canada, and the number of Canadians enlisted in the armies of the North and South. A new introduction gives an overview of Civil War studies since 1960. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR