Battlefields of Canada

By Mary Beacock Fryer

Battlefields of Canada encompasses approximately three hundred years of heritage and lines 16 of the main major Canadian battles in addition to probably the most comedian or strange. Profusely illustrated with sketches, pictures, and distinctive maps, each one bankruptcy units the context of the conflict by way of the fight of which it was once half, after which describes the hour-by-hour occasions. a short end to every bankruptcy assesses the results for the victors and losers, assigning its position in Canadian historical past. A chronology presents a finished checklist of each Canadian conflict because the early 1600s.

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