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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: 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: 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
 
Title: Signal Hill National Historic Site of Canada: History
 
Type: Document
Description: With its obvious strategic location, Signal Hill became the site of harbour defences from the 18th century through the Second World War. The last battle of the Seven Years' War in North America was fought here in 1762.
Site: Parks Canada
 
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