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Québec during the American invasion, 1775-1776 : the journal of François Baby, Gabriel Taschereau, and Jenkin Williams

"Available for the first time in English, the 1776 journal of Francois Baby, Gabriel Taschereau, and Jenkin Williams provides insight into the failure of American revolutionaries to incite rebellion in Quebec. While other sources have shown how British soldiers and civilians and the French-Canadian gentry (the seigneurs) responded to the American invasion of 1775-1776, this journal focuses on French-Canadian peasants, les habitants, who made up the vast majority of the population; in other words, the journal helps explain why Quebec did not become the "fourteenth colony.""--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2005
Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, ©2005
diaries
141 pages ; 23 cm
9780870137402, 0870137409
57069273