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| ISBN: | 9781554881901
1554881900
9781459713765
1459713761
0920474799
9780920474792
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-184) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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 explorer, Zebulon Pike, died leading U.S. forces against the Fort's outnumbered Canadian, British and Aboriginal defenders. The Americans won this battle -- their first major victory in the War of 1812 -- and torched the province's public buildings during a six-day occupation. A year later, British forces.
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| Other form: | Print version: Benn, Carl, 1953- Historic Fort York, 1793-1993. Toronto : Natural Heritage/Natural History, ©1993 0920474799 9780920474792
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