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

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

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

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

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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 These previously untranslated and unpublished primary sources provide contrasting viewpoints from a Loyalist French-Canadian administrative official, Jean-Baptiste Badeaux, and a Patriot Continental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: 9781438460031
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 04/01/2016
Pages: 254
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

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 vii

Acknowledgments ix

Abbreviations Used in Footnotes xi

Introduction xiii

Historical Prelude xvii

Chronology xxv

Jean-Baptiste Badeaux-A Short Biography xxix

William Goforth-A Short Biography xxxv

The Stage-Three Rivers, Quebec, 1775-1776 xliii

Translator's Notes xlvii

Summer 1775 1

September 1775 7

October 1775 21

November 1775 35

December 1775 47

January 1776 55

February 1776 65

March 1776 79

April 1776 109

May 1776 145

June 1776 163

Notes on the Provenance of Badeaux's Journal 167

Appendix 1 The Accounts of the Three Rivers Ursuline Nuns 171

Appendix 2 Officers and Unit Identification 185

Select Bibliography 191

Index 199

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