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In the traditions of Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 comes a new concern of Canada's most famous conflict and the Treaty of Ghent that unsatisfactorily concluded it, in one of the country's premier armed service historians. In the Canadian creativeness, the Warfare of 1812 looms large. It had been a war in which United kingdom and Indian troops prevailed in the vast majority of the battles, where the Americans were not able to hold any of the land they fought for, when a young woman called Laura Secord raced within the Niagara peninsula to warn of American strategies for assault (though how she realized has never been learned), and in which Canadian troops burnt down the White House. Rivalling American claims demand to this day that, in simple fact, it was they who have been triumphant. But where does the truth lie? Somewhere in the middle, as is discovered in this major new reconsideration in one of Canada's get better at historians. Sketching on never-before-seen archival material, Zuehlke paints a captivating picture of the war's major fights, vividly re-creating life in the trenches, the horrifying day-to-day maneuvering on land and sea, and the remarkable negotiations in the Flemish city of Ghent that brought the war to a unsatisfactory end for both factors. By concentrating on the fraught dispute in which United kingdom and American diplomats quarrelled the maximum amount of amongst themselves as with their adversaries, Zuehlke conjures the compromises and backroom deals that yielded conventions resonating in relations between the United States and Canada to this very day.
