A Miniature History of the American Revolution

Below is a listing of blog posts I’ve written concerned with the operations of Brigadier-General Richard Montgomery’s operations in Canada i...

The guns at Fort Saint-Jean fell silent late on November 1, 1775 . The next day was spent in negotiations, and the formal surrender took pl...

The siege of Fort Saint-Jean dragged on for weeks. Brigadier-General Richard Montgomery, who led the American forces, was impatient to fini...

The American Invasion of Canada has been a recurring theme of this blog. Last month I wrote about two events that took place during this cam...

Fort Saint-Jean in southern Quebec was the place at which the British hoped to turn back the American invasion of Canada. The Americans we...

This is another installment in my ongoing series on the American invasion of Canada in 1775 . Governor Guy Carleton made Montréal his headqu...

An American army commanded by Major-General Philip Schuyler crossed into southern Canada on September 4, 1775 , and established a base at L’...

One thing that never ceases to amaze me is how much progress one can make researching Revolutionary War battles with a computer and an Inter...

This is the third and final post devoted to a skirmish at Rivière Saint-Jean in southern Canada that took place on September 18, 1775. For t...

In early September, 1775 , Major-General Philip Schuyler led an American army into southern Canada. It was the first American offensive of t...

The first two American movements against Fort Saint-Jean ended in disappointment (cf. here and here . On the third attempt, however, the Am...

Canadian volunteers participated in every skirmish and battle of the American invasion of Canada. Some fought for the British, others for th...

An American army, under Major-General Philip Schuyler, advanced into Canada on September 4, 1775 . Two days later it made what amounted to a...

A few days ago , I posted a description of the first inaugural skirmish in the American invasion of Canada. For good or ill, the post was ju...