Other Books

Title page of The Bombardier and Pocket-Gunner, 1813

Title page of The American Naval and Patriotic Songster, 1834.  The Star-Spangled Banner poem is included on page 223.  The poem was inspired by the American defence of Fort McHenry, Baltimore, during the War of 1812 .

Orders

General regulations and orders by the War Office of Great Britian, inscribed by L. Colonel Brock.  The book contains manual and platoon exercises, as well as general orders and observations on the movement and field exercise of infantry.  UE 58 G73 1804

District general orders of Maj.-Gen. Sir Isaac Brock from June 27, 1812-Oct. 15, 1812 [and] instructions sent to officers commanding forts/by Maj.-Gen. Brock shortly before the attack on Queenston (1920).  FC 443 B8 A3 1920

 

Handbooks

A handbook for cavalry:  containing the first principles of cavalry discipline, founded on rational method, intended to explain in a familiar and practical manner the management and training of the horse, and the instruction, discipline, and duties of U.S. Light Dragoons coformable to the established elementary discipline of infantry for the United States' military force and the latest improvements in the modern art of war, 1814.   UE 153 D83 1814

The Bombardier, and Pocket-Gunner, 7th edition, 1813.  UF 150 A24 1813

 

Guides

Appleton's northern and eastern traveller's guide:  with new and authentic maps, illustrating those divisions of the country; forming likewise a complete gide to the Middle States, Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, the White Mountains, Catskill Mountains, Niagara and Trenton Falls, Saratoga and Virginia Springs & c.; with the fashionable and healthful resort, and full and accurate descriptions of the principal cities, towns, villages; with distances, fares, &c.; illustrated with numerous maps and plans of cities, engraved on steel, and several wood engravings.   F 106 W56 1850

A geographical view of the Province of Upper Canada:  and promiscuous remarks on the government, in two parts, with an appendix, containing a complete description of the Niagara Falls, and remarks relative to the situation of the inhabitants respecting the war, and a concise history of its progress, to the present date, 1813.   FC 3067.2 S57 1813

 

Tales and Stories

The wars of the gulls; : an historical romance in three chapters; chap. I, Shewing how and why and with whom the gulls went to war: chap. II, Shewing how the gulls make the deep to boil like a pot: chap. III, Shewing how a certain doughty general of the gulls goes forth to play the game of hull-gull in Upper Canada.   FC 448 B53 1812

The American Naval and Patriotic Songster:  as sung at various places of amusement, in honour of Hull, Jones, Decatur, Perry, Bainbridge, Lawrence, 1834.  E 364 A44 1834

Tales of the Niagara Frontier.  FC 446 Q4 T35 1851

 

 

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