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Article: For Ghent-ness sake.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History
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- April 1, 2007
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For Honour's Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace by Mark Zuehlke Alfred A. Knopf, Toronto, 2006 443 pp., illus., $37.95 hardcover
The "Forgotten War" will soon lose its obscurity as plans for books, television documentaries, and conferences to honour the upcoming bicentennial of the War of 1812 get underway. Rather than wait for the competition, however, Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House of Toronto, has entered the marketplace early with this new rifle.
The war began with a declaration of hostilities by the United States against Great Britain in June 1812. Lacking sufficient military and naval strength to attack Britain ...