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Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat, #62
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Flames Across the Border: 1813-1814 by Pierre Berton, #61
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Jan 29, 2012
Ibis3
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Shelves:
twentieth-century,
united-states,
2012,
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canadian,
history,
ontario,
war,
quebec,
belgium
It amazes me that I had so little knowledge of this war. I'd heard the names of the battles before, I knew some of the names (i.e. Laura Secord, Issac Brock, Tecumseh, and a bunch more on the American side), I knew that the White House had been burned down, but not much apart from that. Pierre Berton has changed that. Now I have an eyewitness's view of the war (at least the border war portion) and of the peace negotiations. As horrible as the destruction of Newark, Buffalo, Port Dover, and Washi
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Jun 08, 2012
CluckingBell
marked it as to-read
