Journey through the wilderness : Garnet Wolseley's Canadian Red River expedition of 1870
McNicholls, Paul2019
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In the spring of 1870 an Anglo-Canadian military force embarked on a 1,200 mile journey, half of which would be through the wilderness, bound for the Red River Settlement, the site of present day Winnipeg. At the time the settlement was part of the vast Hudson's Bay Company controlled territories which Canada was in the process of purchasing. Today Canada is the second largest country in the world, but at the time it was a recent creation made up of three British North American colonies. The British government of the day, focussed on financial retrenchment and anchored on anti-imperialist values, would have happily severed its ties with its North American colonies.
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Author:
McNicholls, Paul, author
Imprint:
Solihull : Helion & Company, 2019.
Collation:
112 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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ISBN:
9781911628309 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
971.051
Language:
English
BRN:
1943041