Carl Benn: 5 books

Book cover of Carl Benn's Stories of Canada's Past 2-Book Bundle

Carl Benn's Stories of Canada's Past 2-Book Bundle

Mohawks on the Nile / Historic Fort York

by Carl Benn
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016

Military historian Carl Benn explores the rich history of our nation with two absorbing stories of bravery in this special two-book bundle. Mohawks on the Nile: Natives Among the Canadian Voyageurs in Egypt, 1884-1885 Mohawks on the Nile explores the absorbing history of sixty Aboriginal men...
Book cover of Native Memoirs from the War of 1812

Native Memoirs from the War of 1812

Black Hawk and William Apess

by Carl Benn
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014

Native peoples played major roles in the War of 1812 as allies of both the United States and Great Britain, but few wrote about their conflict experiences. Two famously wrote down their stories: Black Hawk, the British-allied chief of the still-independent Sauks from the upper Mississippi, and American...
Book cover of Mohawks on the Nile

Mohawks on the Nile

Natives Among the Canadian Voyageurs in Egypt, 1884-1885

by Carl Benn
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2009

Mohawks on the Nile explores the absorbing history of sixty Aboriginal men who left their occupations in the Ottawa River timber industry to participate in a military expedition on the Nile River in 1884-1885. Chosen becuase of their outstanding skills as boatmen and river pilots, they formed part...
Book cover of Historic Fort York, 1793-1993
by Carl Benn
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1993

Fearing an American invasion of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe had Fort York built in 1793 as an emergency defensive measure. That act became the first step in the founding of modern Toronto. Twenty years later, the Fort was the scene of the bloody Battle of York in which the famous American...
Book cover of The War of 1812
by Carl Benn
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014

The War of 1812-1815 was a bloody confrontation that tore through the American frontier, the British colonies of Upper and Lower Canada, and parts of the Atlantic coast and the Gulf of Mexico. The conflict saw British, American, and First Nations' forces clash, and in the process, shape the future...
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