![]() ![]() The border divided Americans former Loyalists and Patriots who fought on both sides in the new war, as did First Nations peoples defending their homelands. Would revolutionary republicanism sweep the British from Canada? Or would the British empire contain, divide, and ruin the shaky American republic? In a world of double identities, slippery allegiances, and porous boundaries, the leaders of the republic and of the empire struggled to control their own diverse peoples. Soldiers, immigrants, settlers, and First Nations fought in a northern borderland to determine the fate of a continent. During the early nineteenth century, the British and Americans renewed their struggle over the legacy of the American Revolution. In The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, and Indian Allies, this well-researched and clearly written book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor tells the riveting story of a war that redefined North America. ![]()
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