Canadian Volume 4 epub
Canadian Volume 4 epub
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Author: Books Group
Page Count: 286 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Type: eBook
ISBN: 9781231319819
Download Link: Canadian Volume 4
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...first blow in the war. On July 17th of the opening year, it was captured from the Americans, who fully realized their loss, and towards the end of 1813 their generals began to make preparations for its recapture. News of this design reaching the small British garrison at the place, there was great alarm, and a despatch was sent immediately to the Canadian military headquarters at Kingston, appealing for aid to meet the coming attack. A relief expedition accordingly left Kingston in February, 1814, consisting of ten officers and two hundred picked men, with twenty artillerymen, and twenty men of the Royal Navy, all under the command of Lieut.-Col. Robert McDowall, of the Glengarry Light Infantry. A large part of the route lay through territory then but little known. To this must be added another hardship--the severity of the weather in which the march was made. From Kingston they proceeded to Little York, which was still suffering from the grim xperiences of its capture. They next advanced northward by Yonge-street to Holland Landing, after which they passed entirely out of the settlements, and crossed the frozen surface of Lake Simcoe. Beyond this lake, the forest was then unbroken, except by an Indian portage, which, for the passage of their supplies, they widened as they advanced. This road, leading from the head of Kempenfeldt Bay to Willow Creek, a branch of the Nottawasaga River, was called the " Nine-Mile Portage," and it afterward became an important colonization road. At its north-westerly end, near Willow Creek, a wooden fort was subsequently erected, and a handet flourished there for several years, but it has long since disappeared, and its site, as an accompanying illustration shows, is marked by only a few hillocks of earth and stones....
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Canadian Volume 4 by Books Group
Author: Books Group
Page Count: 286 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Type: eBook
ISBN: 9781231319819
Download Link: Canadian Volume 4
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...first blow in the war. On July 17th of the opening year, it was captured from the Americans, who fully realized their loss, and towards the end of 1813 their generals began to make preparations for its recapture. News of this design reaching the small British garrison at the place, there was great alarm, and a despatch was sent immediately to the Canadian military headquarters at Kingston, appealing for aid to meet the coming attack. A relief expedition accordingly left Kingston in February, 1814, consisting of ten officers and two hundred picked men, with twenty artillerymen, and twenty men of the Royal Navy, all under the command of Lieut.-Col. Robert McDowall, of the Glengarry Light Infantry. A large part of the route lay through territory then but little known. To this must be added another hardship--the severity of the weather in which the march was made. From Kingston they proceeded to Little York, which was still suffering from the grim xperiences of its capture. They next advanced northward by Yonge-street to Holland Landing, after which they passed entirely out of the settlements, and crossed the frozen surface of Lake Simcoe. Beyond this lake, the forest was then unbroken, except by an Indian portage, which, for the passage of their supplies, they widened as they advanced. This road, leading from the head of Kempenfeldt Bay to Willow Creek, a branch of the Nottawasaga River, was called the " Nine-Mile Portage," and it afterward became an important colonization road. At its north-westerly end, near Willow Creek, a wooden fort was subsequently erected, and a handet flourished there for several years, but it has long since disappeared, and its site, as an accompanying illustration shows, is marked by only a few hillocks of earth and stones....
Read online Canadian Volume 4 Buy Canadian Volume 4 Download and read Canadian Volume 4 for pc, mac, kindle, readers Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Canadian Volume 4 ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent