''The Invasion of Canada: 1812–1813'' is a 1980 book by
Pierre Berton
Pierre Francis de Marigny Berton, CC, O.Ont. (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a Canadian writer, journalist and broadcaster. Berton wrote 50 best-selling books, mainly about Canadiana, Canadian history and popular culture. He also wr ...
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The book and its sequel
The book is an account of the first year of the
War of 1812
The War of 1812 (18 June 1812 – 17 February 1815) was fought by the United States of America and its indigenous allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in British North America, with limited participation by Spain in Florida. It bega ...
and the events leading up to it. Berton wrote that this history is neither military nor political. "This is, rather, a ''social'' history of the war, the first to be written by a Canadian." Details of the book were drawn from memoirs and diaries of common soldiers and commanding officers, as well as official military correspondence.
The story of the war, to its conclusion, was continued in the follow-up book, ''Flames Across the Border: The Canadian-American Tragedy, 1813–1814'' (1981).
[Pierre Berton (1981), ''Flames across the Border: The Canadian-American Tragedy, 1813–1814'', Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown.]
See also
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Family Compact
The Family Compact was a small closed group of men who exercised most of the political, economic and judicial power in Upper Canada (today’s Ontario) from the 1810s to the 1840s. It was the Upper Canadian equivalent of the Château Clique in L ...
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Further reading
"War of 1812, the", in ''Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature'' (1991), New York: HarperCollins.
1980 non-fiction books
20th-century history books
History books about the War of 1812
Books by Pierre Berton
War of 1812 books
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