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To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the American campaign into Canada, historian Mark Anderson examines the American colonies’ efforts to bring Quebec into the Continental confederation and free Canadians from British “tyranny.” Drawing from his research, Anderson offers new insight into the key political and military factors that ultimately doomed America’s first foreign war of liberation and resulted in the Continental Army’s decisive expulsion from Canada on the eve of the Declaration of Independence.
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Mark R. Anderson is an independent historian and retired U.S. Air Force officer. He earned his B.A. in history from Purdue University and his M.A. in military studies from American Military University, with a concentration in early American land warfare. He is the author of several books, including The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony: America’s War of Liberation in Canada, 1774-1776 (University Press of New England, 2013); 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 (State University of New York Press, 2017); Down the Warpath to the Cedars: Indians’ First Battles in the Revolution (University of Oklahoma Press, 2022), and contributed an essay to The 10 Key Campaigns of the American Revolution (Regnery History, 2020), edited by Edward G. Lengel. In 2016, he was awarded the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship to conduct research in our library on the structure and unit deployment of the Continental Northern Army from the army’s establishment in 1775 through the end of the Canadian campaign of 1776.
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To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the American campaign into Canada, historian Mark Anderson examines the American colonies’ efforts to bring Quebec into the Continental confederation and free Canadians from British “tyranny.” Drawing from his research, Anderson offers new insight into the key political and military factors that ultimately doomed America’s first foreign war of liberation and resulted in the Continental Army’s decisive expulsion from Canada on the eve of the Declaration of Independence.
About the Speaker
Mark R. Anderson is an independent historian and retired U.S. Air Force officer. He earned his B.A. in history from Purdue University and his M.A. in military studies from American Military University, with a concentration in early American land warfare. He is the author of several books, including The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony: America’s War of Liberation in Canada, 1774-1776 (University Press of New England, 2013); 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 (State University of New York Press, 2017); Down the Warpath to the Cedars: Indians’ First Battles in the Revolution (University of Oklahoma Press, 2022), and contributed an essay to The 10 Key Campaigns of the American Revolution (Regnery History, 2020), edited by Edward G. Lengel. In 2016, he was awarded the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship to conduct research in our library on the structure and unit deployment of the Continental Northern Army from the army’s establishment in 1775 through the end of the Canadian campaign of 1776.
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