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Title: Americans at Advantage
 
Type: Document
Online Reference Books
Description: After 1815, the trend to fighting in a more European fashion in North America favoured the United States over Britain. The huge American population could produce vast numbers of militia and volunteers, and these would be most useful in a war fought out in the open.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: A Revolution in Artillery
 
Type: Document
Online Reference Books
Description: Between 1858 and 1870, artillery developed from cast-iron muzzle-loading smoothbore guns (firing solid shot) to steel-barrelled breech-loading rifled guns (firing explosive shells). The new weapons fired faster, at longer ranges, with more accuracy, and did more damage.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: Infantry Tactics Transformed
 
Type: Document
Online Reference Books
Description: The new infantry weapons developed in the 1850s and 1860s changed the way battles were fought. Attacking an opponent whose infantry was armed with modern weapons became a very bloody affair.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: The Military Art of the American Northwest
 
Type: Document
Online Reference Books
Description: War in the Pacific Northwest centred around the canoe, which could be up to 20 metres long. Flotillas of canoes would attack enemy villages, hoping to capture prisoners to keep as slaves. Coastal forts of cedar logs were to be found, used to help control and tax maritime trade.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: Formidable Fighters
 
Type: Document
Online Reference Books
Description: The peoples of the Pacific coast were formidable fighters during the 18th and 19th centuries. Their warriors used bows and javelins, carried clubs and bone-bladed daggers, and could wear wooden armour. They preferred a mass assault, but treachery during 'friendly' meetings were not rare.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: St. Andrews Blockhouse National Historic Site of Canada: Military Serv...
 
Type: Document
Description: After the war ended in 1814, St. Andrews Blockhouse continued to be used as a barracks by the Royal Artillery.
Site: Parks Canada
 
Title: St. Andrews Blockhouse National Historic Site of Canada: Commemorative...
 
Type: Document
Description: reason for national historic significance.
Site: Parks Canada
 
Title: St. Andrews Blockhouse National Historic Site of Canada : Blockhousess
 
Type: Document
Description: Blockhouses were a common type of defense structure used throughout colonial North America
Site: Parks Canada
 
Title: Rideau Canal National Historic Site of Canada: Rideau Canal National H...
 
Type: Document
Description: Students are provided with information on the Rideau Canal National Historic Site of Canada, to understand why it has recently received designation as a world heritage site
Site: Parks Canada
 
Title: Signal Hill National Historic Site of Canada
 
Type: Document
Description: This historic site celebrates the rich communications and military history of Signal Hill and sits amidst a spectacular view of St. John's and the sea.
Site: Parks Canada
 
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