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HistoryTHE FOURTEENTH COLONY CANADA AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION THIS work aims to give an account of the intense effort of the thirteen United Colonies, at the time we were becoming the United States, to secure the adhesion of the one other conspicuous member of the British colonial group in North America ; and the form of words chosen for a title seems to suggest these ideas better than any other of equal length that occurred to the author. New Brunswick had not been organized at the time of our Revolution ; Nova Scotia, St John s Island, and New foundland were not involved in the struggle, and the region between the Ohio River and the Great Lakes, though under British law a part of Canada at that period, has never been recognized as such by the Americans. The field, therefore, is what has often been known as Upper and Lower Canada ; but the former, mainly a wilderness, had almost no share in the events. In a sense, the "struggle" ended in June, 1776 ; but as the later operations were hinged upon those prior to that date and aimed constantly at a renewal of the effort, it seems very proper to include them. An attempt has been made to secure completeness and accuracy of information, and also since, in the early years of the Revolution, feeling had more influence than calcu lation to help the student of the events realize for himself the situations and the states of mind which they involved. next |