ISBN: 978-0-915317-61-5
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The importance to Canadian History of the description of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the subsequent battles between the French and British Armies in the French effort to win back Quebec was recognized by Major John Richardson who serialized it in his Kingston, Ontario newspaper, The Canadian Loyalist and Spirit of 1812 in 1844. Adjutant-General Richard Bullock wrote the article. He had fought alongside Richardson in the Right Division of the British Army in the War of 1812, which Richardson described in A Canadian Campaign.
First published in the 1820s, A Canadian Campaign narrates Richardson’s experiences with the 41st Regiment from the Battle of Fort Detroit through the Battle of the Thames and his imprisonment in Kentucky. Recollections of the West Indies describes his military experience on Barbados and Grenada from 1816 to 1817 and his denunciation of slavery. In Search of Richardson’s Spain is David Beasley’s retracing of the march of the British Legion over the Cantabrica Mountains as described in Richardson’s Journal in 1835 — contrasting then to now.
