Ten Years of Upper Canada in Peace and War, 1805-1815; Being the Ridout Letters with Annotations by Matilda Edgar. Also an Appendix of The Narrative of the Captivity among the Shawanese Indians, in 1788, of Thos. Ridout, Afterwards Surveyor-General of Upper Canada; and a Vocabulary, Compiled by Him, of the Shawanese Language.
Toronto: Williams Brigg, 1890. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Item #2314627
Former library copy - usual marks. Spine slightly cocked, edges lightly rubbed, front hinge starting.
389 pp. Two fold-out maps, several portraits. Includes: Frontispiece, Portrait of Thos. G. Ridout; A Hundred Years Ago; Little York, Cornwall School, 1805-1809; Little York, Montreal and Quebec, 1809-1811; Voyage to England, 1811; Gossip from London, 1811; Amusements in London--News from York, 1811-12; A Canadian at Oxford, 1812; London and Wollwich; First Notes of the War, 1812; Opening of First Campaign--Michillimackinac--Detroit, 1812; Queenston Heights, October, 1812; End of First Campaign, 1812; Second Campaign--Frenchtown, Osdensburg, York, 1813; Fort George, Stoney Creek, Beaver Dams, 1813; Chauncey's Fleet--The Camp, Summer, 1813; Naval Fight, Lake Erie, September, 1813; Tecumseh, Battle of the Thames, October, 1813; Chateauguay, Chrysler's Field, October, November, 1813; Fire and Sword, December 1813; Third Year of War, Lacolle, Oswego, 1814; Fort Erie, Chippewa, Lundy's Lane, 1814; Fort Erie, York, Mackinaw, August, 1814; Lake Champlain, Plattsburg, September, 1814; Last Days of the War--Autumn, 1814, 1815.
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