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Sto caricando le informazioni... John Graves Simcoe 1752-1806: A Biographydi Mary Beacock Fryer, Christopher Dracott
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This was a great biography, enough detail to tell the tale and be faithful to the record without getting bogged down. There's a bit of a theme of a man fighting against British bureaucracy to see the right thing done, but I suppose that's true of any individual in such a large enterprise. It's a sympathetic portrayal, and perhaps skips over questions around Simcoe's behavior in the American Revolution - it alludes to them and quickly notes the allegations were rejected by his superiors - and Haiti - it discusses the moral implications of his Haitian stationing given he was opposed to slavery but seems to shrug its shoulders and say, well, he was just doing his job. Perhaps there's no more to say than that. What's clear from this book is that Simcoe was a somewhat minor figure and the regard he is held in in Canada is far and above the regard he was held in at the time of his life and the import of any other postings he had during his life. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
A biography of the legendary figure who was appointed the first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada in 1791 and founded the town of York in 1792. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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