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A Dirty, Trifling Piece of Business: Volume 1: The Revolutionary War as Waged from Canada in 1781

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By 1781, the sixth year of the American rebel, British strategic center of attention had shifted from the northern states to pay attention in the south. Canada’s governor, Frederick Haldimand, was once answerable for the defence of the Crown’s largest colony against the specter of Franco-American invasion, whilst assisting overall British strategy. He cleverly employed his sparse resources to vigorously raid the rebels’ frontiers and create anxiety, disruption, and deprivation, as his Secret Service undermined their morale with invasion rumours and threatened their Union by negotiating with the independent republic of Vermont to go back to the British fold.

Haldimand flooded New York’s Mohawk and Schoharie valleys with Indian and Loyalist raiders and, once the danger of invasion passed, he dispatched two coordinated expeditions south. One was once launched onto Lake Champlain to alarm Albany and further the name of the game talks with Vermont. The second one struck deep into enemy territory, fought a battle at Johnstown, and retreated precipitately. The rebels effectively countered both expeditions.

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