{"product_id":"the-invasion-of-canada-18121813","title":"The Invasion of Canada: 1812-1813","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo Americas leaders in 1812  an invasion of Canada seemed to be \"a mere matter of marching \" as Thomas Jefferson confidently predicted. How could a nation of 8 million fail to subdue a struggling colony of 300 000? Yet  when the campaign of 1812 ended  the only Americans left on Canadian soil were prisoners of war. Three American armies had been forced to surrender  and the British were in control of all of Michigan Territory and much of Indiana and Ohio.  In this remarkable account of the wars first year and the events that led up to it  Pierre Berton transforms history into an engrossing narrative that reads like a fast-paced novel. Drawing on personal memoirs and diaries as well as official dispatches  the author has been able to get inside the characters of the men who fought the war  the common soldiers as well as the generals  the bureaucrats and the profiteers  the traitors and the loyalists.  Berton believes that if there had been no war  most of Ontario would probably be American today; and if the war had been lost by the British  all of Canada would now be part of the United States. But the War of 1812  or more properly the myth of the war  served to give the new settlers a sense of community and set them on a different course from that of their neighbours.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44965051564085,"sku":"ByrdShop_0385658397","price":39.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780385658393.jpg?v=1770487483","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-invasion-of-canada-18121813","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}