Defender of Canada Volume 40

Tanya Grodzinski is Associate Professor Emerita of History at the Royal Military College of Canada and past editor of the online War of 1812 Magazine. She is the author of The War of 1812: An Annotated Bibliography and Defender of Canada: Sir George Prevost and the War of 1812. Military historian Donald E. Graves is the author of several books, including most recently Dragon Rampant: The Royal Welch Fusiliers at War, 1793-1815.

"Prevost's role as governor general of Canada has long been diminished or underestimated. In this well-written, thoroughly researched account, John R. Grodzinski successfully restores Prevost to his rightful place as British North America's key military figure during the War of 1812."-John H. Schroeder, author of Commodore John Rodgers: Paragon of the Early American Navy "This full-dress study and reassessment of Sir George Prevost is long overdue. John R. Grodzinski does a masterful job of tracing Prevost's career and demonstrates that this much-maligned leader deserves to be remembered as the savior of Canada."-Donald R. Hickey, author of The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict "Sir George Prevost has had many critics and almost no defenders. In the course of rehabilitating Prevost's reputation, John R. Grodzinski gives us a fresh, comprehensive analysis of British strategy and policy-making in North America, 1811 to 1815. This book will stand as one of the more significant studies to emerge from the bicentennial of the War of 1812."-J. C. A. Stagg, author of The War of 1812: Conflict for a Continent "In a major contribution to scholarship, John R. Grodzinski shifts the focus from the drama and glory of battles and campaigns to the higher direction of war. His focus on the combined civil-military command that defeated a succession of American invasions places Sir George Prevost in the wider context of imperial power, and makes a strong case in Prevost's defense."-Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge: Britain against America in the Naval War of 1812