The Invasion of Canada by the Americans, 1775-1776: As Told through Jean-Baptiste Badeaux's Three Rivers Journal and New York Captain William Goforth's Letters

by Mark R. Anderson (Editor), Teresa L. Meadows (Translator)

Overview

The Invasion of Canada by the Americans, 1775–1776 offers two significant, insightful, and intriguing first-hand accounts of the Revolutionary War. These previously untranslated and unpublished primary sources provide contrasting viewpoints from a Loyalist French-Canadian administrative official, Jean-Baptiste Badeaux, and a Patriot Continental officer, William Goforth. Compelling personal interactions with friends and neighbors, and local and provincial-level leaders—as occupier and occupied—are documented. Their stories climax during the two-month period in early 1776 when Goforth was military governor of Three Rivers and Badeaux served as his somewhat reluctant interpreter and unofficial advisor. Including their experiences with Benedict Arnold and Quebec's Governor Guy Carleton, as well as letters to Benjamin Franklin and John Jay, this unique book provides diverse insights into the invasion of Canada and its immediate impact on the people on both sides of the revolution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438460055
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	03/14/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	254
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Mark R. Anderson is an independent historian and author of The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony: America's War of Liberation in Canada, 1774–1776. Teresa L. Meadows is Associate Professor of French and Visual and Performing Arts at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Maps
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations Used in Footnotes
Introduction
Historical Prelude
Chronology
Jean-Baptiste Badeaux—A Short Biography
William Goforth—A Short Biography
The Stage—Three Rivers, Quebec, 1775–1776
Translator’s Notes

Summer 1775
September 1775
October 1775
November 1775
December 1775
January 1776
February 1776
March 1776
April 1776
May 1776
June 1776

Notes on the Provenance of Badeaux’s Journal

Appendix 1—The Accounts of the Three Rivers Ursuline Nuns
Appendix 2—Officers and Unit Identification

Select Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Anderson's edited volume is useful for undergraduates and others who are looking for opportunities to work with primary sources but do not have the means for research trips to archives." — H-Net Reviews (H-War)

"...[an] editorial triumph … Essential." — CHOICE

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