Hope Restored: The American Revolution and the Founding of New Brunswick (New Brunswick Military Heritage Series) - Softcover

Dallison, Robert L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0864923716 ISBN 13: 9780864923714

Verlag: Goose Lane Editions, 2003

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"Relate[s] the interplay between military affairs and the formation and evolution of the province . . . Humanistic stories, both general and specific . . . give an appreciation of the peoples that came to found the eventual Canadian province . . . Often heart-wrenching . . . An excellent overview of the location and importance of sites of interest and resting places of key Loyalists." - Canadian Historical Review - 20130109

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Few Canadians realize how close the colony of Nova Scotia came to joining the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Many Nova Scotians were immigrants from New England, including the Planters who, some twenty years earlier, had taken over the farms of the expelled Acadians. Between family ties and unrestrained privateering, there was much sympathy in Nova Scotia for the American Patriots. In Hope Restored, Robert Dallison tells the story of how the British raised two regiments and sent their members to the area that, as a result, became New Brunswick, thus overcoming the groundswell and fending off Patriot attacks. These soldiers had two jobs: to fight the Americans, and to settle the land as a bulwark against invasion. Spem reduxit (hope restored) became their motto and the motto of the province they founded. As well as telling the story of the Loyalist regiments, Hope Restored describes many Loyalist and Revolutionary War sites, some of which can be visited today. Among them are the Loyalist Encampment and Cemetery in Fredericton, Saint John's Fort Howe, and the MacDonald Farm Provincial Historic Park in Northumberland County. Hope Restored is the second book in the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series published by Goose Lane Editions in collaboration with the New Brunswick Military Heritage Project. Written by historians and military personnel, the books in this series will explore subjects ranging from New Brunswick's pivotal role in the American Revolution to one veteran's account of caring for World War I cavalry horses. All of the volumes will be fully illustrated with modern and archival maps, photos, and works of art and are available at all bookstores in New Brunswick.

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• Verlag: Goose Lane Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0864923716
• ISBN 13: 9780864923714
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 120