Loyal Service: Perspectives on French-Canadian Military Leaders

by Bernd Horn (Editor), Roch Legault (Editor), J.H.P.M Caron (Foreword by)

Overview

French Canadians have a long, proud history of serving their nation. From the earliest beginnings, French Canadians assisted in carving out and defending the nascent country. They were critical as defenders and as allies against hostile Natives and competing European powers. In the aftermath of the conquest, they continued, albeit under a different flag, to defend Canada. Loyal Service examines the service of a number of French-Canadian leaders and their contributions to the nation during times of peace, crisis, and conflict spanning the entire historical spectrum from New France to the end of the twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781459712409
Publisher:	Dundurn Press
Publication date:	02/28/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Colonel Bernd Horn is an experienced infantry officer and is currently the director of the Canadian Forces Leadership Institute. Dr. Horn is also an adjunct professor of history at the Royal Military College of Canada.

Dr. Roch Legault is an associate professor of history at the Royal Military College of Canada. He has published works that focus on Canadian military history and strategy.

Colonel Bernd Horn is a retired Regular Force infantry officer and military educator. Dr. Horn has authored, co-authored, and edited more than forty books, including A Most Ungentlemanly Way of War: The SOE and the Canadian Connection and No Ordinary Men: Special Operations Forces Missions in Afghanistan. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.

Table of Contents

Foreword   Lieutenant-General J.H.P.M. Caron     7
Acknowledgements     9
Introduction   Bernd Horn   Roch Legault     11
Hertel and Canada's First Tacticians in the Seventeenth Century   Rene Chartrand     19
Marin and Langis: Master Practitioners of La Petite Guerre   Bernd Horn     53
Ascending to Leadership: The Militia Commanders of Montreal, Lower Canada (1790-1839)   Christian Dessureault   Roch Legault     87
Adolphe Caron: Canada's Successful War Minister   Desmond Morton     125
The Military Career of Colonel Oscar Pelletier: An Example of French-Canadian Leadership Before the First World War   Michel D. Litalien     167
The Strength of Character: Major-General F.L. Lessard   John McFarlane     193
From Cadet to Brigadier-General: Thomas-Louis Tremblay and the 22nd Battalion (French-Canadian)   Marcelle Cinq-Mars     217
French-Canadian Leadership in Canada's Navy, 1910-1971   Jean-Francois Drapeau     237
Jacques Dextraze and the Art of Command, 1944-1973   Yves Tremblay     265
Balancing Between Autocratic and Democratic Leadership: The Career of Major-General Claude LaFrance   Serge Bernier     293
Do the RightThing: Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire in the 1990s   Carol Off     311
Contributors     329
Index     331