The Last French and Indian War 9780773574274

In the summer of 1760, ten months after the fall of Quebec City, British forces under the command of General Amherst wer

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Table of contents :
Table of Contents
Introduction
I: IN THE CROSSFIRE
The Year 1760: From the Surrender of Quebec City to the Surrender of Montreal
The War with Three Names
After the Surrender of Quebec City
English Reinforcements
Murray Begins the March to Montreal
The French and Canadiens in Retreat
Amherst's Hard March
The Indian "Missions"
The Fate of Fort Lévis
The Oswegatchie conference
The Path Is Clear
Amherst, Haviland, Murray
Vaudreuil's Surrender
An Account by Johnson and Amherst
The Caughnawaga Conference
II: THE SUPREME COURT AND THE SIOUI RULING
Murray's "Treaty" and the Courts
A Peak of Activity: 1819–24
Stuart's Conclusions
The Opinion of Sociologist Léon Gérin
Georges E. Sioui Offers His Version
The Siouis Spring into Action
Submission of a Mysterious Document
The Conclusions of the Superior Court
A Defeat with the Scent of Victory
The Court of Appeal Is Divided
This Time, Quebec Appeals
Justice Lamer Hears Mr. Larochelle ...
... but Listens to Chief Justice Dickson
III: THE MURRAY DOCUMENT AND THE HISTORIANS
The Murray Document and the Historians
The Sioui Ruling Put to the Test
Denys Delâge's Opinion
Peter MacLeod's Opinion
Donald Graves's Analysis
Another Expert: W.J. Eccles
Marcel Trudel's Opinion
Another Trial: The Legal Saga Continues
The Historian Raynald Parent
An Examination of the Murray Document
Print Characters in 1760
Various Versions of the Murray Document Surface
Provenance of the Printed Version (D-7a)
Murray's Intentions
From the Meeting of September 5 to the Conference of September 15–16
Epilogue
Oswegatchie, Longueuil, and Caughnawaga
Conclusion
Appendices: Indian Alliances in William Johnson's Hands
Sources
References
Illustration Sources
Original Document Discovered, 1996
Index
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