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Title: Butler's Rangers - The American Revolution - Join or Die - A Question ...
 
Type: Document
Description: Many Loyalists who fled the Thirteen Colonies formed guerrilla armies that were Britain's most effective weapon against the American Revolution. The most notorious of them all was Butler's Rangers, led by John Butler, a wealthy New York landowner who recruited Loyalists and Indians from the Six Nations to fight the Americans. The story of Butler and his Rangers is the subject of this excerpt from the television series "Canada: A People's History." Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Attack on Schenectady - Claiming the Wilderness
 
Type: Document
Description: A brief description of the guerilla raid on Albany in the English colony of New York by Canadian militiamen and Indians. It began with an attack on the fortified English village of Schnectady, which had been ordered by Frontenac and led by coureurs des bois. Taken from the television series "Canada: A People's History." Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Rebellion on the Plains - North West Rebellion
 
Type: Document Film and Video
Description: A description of the Métis and Indian involvement in the Northwest Rebellion of 1885. The settlers' reaction to the threat of Indian uprising and the military backlash to actions taken by the rebels are also discussed. From the television series "Canada: A People's History." Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Another Round Of Iroquois Wars
 
Type: Document
Online Reference Books
Description: The Iroquois pressed their advantage, raiding and spreading fear among the colonists. A French attempt to force a pitched battle was unsuccessful.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: The European Failure
 
Type: Document
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Description: Unlike the Spanish Central America, Europeans were unable to successfully colonize North America in the 16th Century. Amerindian guerrilla tactics combined with a cold and hostile land to frustrate the newcomers. Nevertheless, North America became a theatre of war for European conflicts.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: The Shock of the Attack on Lachine
 
Type: Document
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Description: In 1689, the Iroquois attacked the village of Lachine near Montreal, killing many and taking others prisoner . Perceiving the Iroquois attack to be instigated by the English, with whom France had just gone to war, Governor Frontenac decided upon a formidable counterattack.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: 300 Versus 3000
 
Type: Document
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Description: The American army attacked the Canadian position at Châteauguay on 26 October 1813, but it could not break through. The defenders use of cover and trickery made the invaders think they faced a far larger force. Added to the steady behaviour of the Canadians, this was enough to win.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: Fragile Colonies
 
Type: Document
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Description: New France remained a struggling colony with a skeletal garrison. Constantly raided by the Iroquois, the colony was far smaller than the English or Dutch settlements in North America.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: Amerindian Friction
 
Type: Document
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Description: An ongoing problem for the British administration in Nova Scotia was hostility between the colony and the Abenaki and Micmac Amerindians.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: Acadian militiaman, 1755-1760
 
Type: Image
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Description: Not all Acadians were deported in 1755. Some escaped into the wilderness of present-day New Brunswick and from there, staged such a relentless guerrilla-style warfare on British areas that it took great numbers of British and American provincial troops to guard, with variable success, the western borders to Nova Scotia. Following the surrender of the French army in September 1760, the Acadians partisans would not give up to the British and it took French officers to finally convince them to lay down their arms and respect the capitulation. Reconstruction by Derek Fitzjames. (Parks Canada)
Site: National Defence
 
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