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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Carl Benn. The Iroquois in the War of 1812. Buffalo: University of Toronto Press. 1998. Pp. xi, 272. Cloth $50.00, paper $21.95.

Not many doctoral dissertations are successfully transformed into minutely detailed yet eminently readable books. Carl Benn has succeeded in doing so for the Iroquoian peoples engaged as allies of both the Americans and the British in a war waged along the Canadian border (which both the United States and Britain claim to have won). The veritable losers were the Native peoples on both sides of the international border, although those on the American side lost much more than their Canadian counterparts. The British were never able to deliver on their vague promise to support a Native homeland, an independent buffer state in the Michigan region. The American victories in southwestern Upper Canada in late 1813, notably the battle of Moraviantown where Tecumseh was killed, shattered the dream of an independent aboriginal homeland. The British failed to press the issue at the negotiations in Ghent because they became preoccupied with the threat posed in Europe by Napoleon Bonaparte. 1

Benn's in-depth study replaces the earlier works of Robert S. Allen, J. Mackay Hitsman, and George F. G. Stanley on the War of 1812 and supplements the diplomatic history of Colin G. Calloway and Gregory Evans Dowd's examination of the struggle for a united North American Native confederacy. He has mined the archival sources and consulted the relevant publications to good effect. However, one is rather puzzled why he did not consult a parallel study, D. Peter MacLeod, The Canadian Iroquois and the Seven Years' War (1996). . . .

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