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Tecumseh & Brock

Author: James Laxer

Publisher: House of Anansi

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0887842615

A political scientist, scholar and the best-selling author of Stalking the Elephant: My Discover of America describes the War of 1812 and discusses the strange alliance of a Shawnee chieftain and an English Major-General.

Tecumseh

Author: James Laxer

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781554981236

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-This richly illustrated book tells the remarkable life story of Tecumseh--one of the great leaders of North America's First Peoples--culminating in the events of the War of 1812.---Front jacket flap.

The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K.B. Interspersed with Notices of the Celebrated Indian Chief, Tecumseh; and Comprising Brief Memoirs of D. De Lisle Brock, Lieut. E. W. Tupper, R.N., and Colonel W. De Vic Tupper ... Edited by His Nephew F. B. Tupper

Author: Ferdinand Brock TUPPER

Publisher:

Published: 1845

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13:

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The True Face of Sir Isaac Brock

Author: Guy St-Denis

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781773850207

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"Major General Sir Isaac Brock is remembered as the Hero of Upper Canada for his defence of what is now Ontario during the War of 1812 and for his noble death at the battle of Queenston Heights. In the time since his death, Brock's likeness has been lost in a confusing array of portraits-most of which are misidentified or conceptual. The 1824 monument constructed to honour Brock's sacrifice at Queenston Heights was destroyed in 1840 by Benjamin Lett, a disgruntled disciple of William Lyon Mackenzie and critic of the Upper Canadian elite. After this destruction, portraits of Brock were painted with a series of false faces that served competing claims and agendas. St-Denis situates Brock's portraits within an emerging English Canadian imperial nationalism that sought a heroic past which reflected their own aspirations and ambitions. A work of detailed scholarship and a fascinating detective story, "The True Face of Sir Isaac Brock" reveals the sometimes petty world of self-proclaimed guardians of the past, the complex process of identification and misidentification that occurs even at esteemed institutions, and St-Denis' own meticulous work as he separates fact from fiction to finally discover Brock's true face."--

A Matter of Honour

Author: Jonathon Riley

Publisher: Frontline Books

Published: 2010-09-30

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13: 1473811562

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The monument to Isaac Brock (17691812) on Queenston Heights in Canada, as high as Nelsons column in London, pays tribute to the military commander of all troops opposing the American invasion of Canada during the War of 1812. Brocks service during the War of 1812 includes leading the capture of Detroit. He was killed on the morning of 13 October 1812, leading a company of the 49th Foot in a counter-attack on the American lodgement atop Queenston Heights. Although Brock died and his uphill charge against the American muskets failed, the invasion was repulsed soon afterwards.A Matter of Honour focuses on Brocks career as a military commander and also as a civil administrator for the government of Upper Canada. Early chapters deal with his life and military service up to 1791. The book also records his command of the 49th Regiment in the Low Countries and at Copenhagen up to his arrival in Canada in 1802. Brock spent more time in Canada than any other British general who fought in the War of 1812. He faced a difficult situation in Canada, defending a long frontier with meagre resources. However, he was renowned for his resourcefulness, inspiring leadership and ability to keep opponents off-balance

The Astonishing General

Author: Wesley B. Turner

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2011-06-16

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1459700074

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Winner of the 2011 OHS Donald Grant Creighton Award This book is about Major General Sir Isaac Brock (1769 - October 13, 1812). It tells of his life, his career and legacy, particularly in the Canadas, and of the context within which he lived. One of the most enduring legacies of the War of 1812 on both the United States and Canadian sides was the creation of heroes and heroines. The earliest of those heroic individuals was Isaac Brock who in some ways was the most unlikely of heroes. For one thing, he was admired by his American foes almost as much as by his own people. Even more striking is how a British general whose military role in that two-and-a-half-year war lasted less than five months became the best known hero and one revered far and wide. Wesley B. Turner finds this outcome astonishing and approaches the subject from that point of view.