French Canadians have a long, proud history of serving their nation. From the earliest beginnings, French Canadians assisted in carving out and defending the nascent country. They were critical as defenders and as allies against hostile Natives and competing European powers. In the aftermath of the conquest, they continued, albeit under a different flag, to defend Canada. Loyal Service examines the service of a number of French-Canadian leaders and their contributions to the nation during times of peace, crisis, and conflict spanning the entire historical spectrum from New France to the end of the twentieth century.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 355.308911/4071
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Co-published by Canadian Defence Academy Press Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9781550026931 9781554882182
- LCCN
- UA600
- LCCN Item number
- H67 2006eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (336 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00603165 (OCoLC)244771114 (CaOOCEL)410789
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Perspectives on French-Canadian military leaders
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 6
- FOREWORD 8
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 10
- INTRODUCTION 12
- CHAPTER ONE: Hertel and Canada's First Tacticians in the Seventeenth Century 20
- CHAPTER TWO: Marin and Langis: Master Practitioners of La Petite Guerre 54
- CHAPTER THREE: Ascending to Leadership: The Militia Commanders of Montreal, Lower Canada (1790–1839) 88
- CHAPTER FOUR: Adolphe Caron: Canada's Successful War Minister 126
- CHAPTER FIVE: The Military Career of Colonel Oscar Pelletier: An Example of French-Canadian Leadership Before the First World War 168
- CHAPTER SIX: The Strength of Character: Major-General F.L. Lessard 194
- CHAPTER SEVEN: From Cadet to Brigadier-General: Thomas-Louis Tremblay and the 22nd Battalion (French-Canadian) 218
- CHAPTER EIGHT: French-Canadian Leadership in Canada's Navy, 1910–1971 238
- CHAPTER NINE: Jacques Dextraze and the Art of Command, 1944–1973 266
- CHAPTER TEN: Balancing Between Autocratic and Democratic Leadership: The Career of Major-General Claude LaFrance 294
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Do the Right Thing: Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire in the 1990s 312
- CONTRIBUTORS 330
- INDEX 332
- A 332
- B 332
- C 332
- D 333
- E 333
- F 333
- G 334
- H 334
- I 334
- J 334
- K 334
- L 334
- M 335
- N 335
- O 335
- P 335
- Q 336
- R 336
- S 336
- T 336
- U 337
- V 337
- W 337
- Y 337
