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PACKAGEreviewed by Peter Martin  \n8 VIEWs  \n8 AND REVIEWS  \nTroubled Canada:The Lonely Land:The Ant of the PossibleFur and Gold:River of Canada  \n11 MOSswORD NUMBER SIXby Sylvia Moss  \nCoLUMBIA UIVE典srTYLI马RABI  \n12 CURRENT CHOICE  \nJUN 12362  \n15 MoSsWORD WINNERS  \nLARY Ssavuds Lr盎▲武空  \n王：王王  \n王王王王王王王王王王王王王王王王王王王王王王  \nTHE  \nCANADIANREADER  \nMAY 1962  \nPUBLISHED BY READERS'CLUB OF CANADA LIMITED/VOL 3 NO 7  \n# Readers'Club Selection\n\nNAVIES IN THE MOUNTAINS  \nby HARRISON BIRD  \nreviewed by ROBERT WEAVER  \nHARRISON BIRD'S NAVIES IN THE MOUNTAINS is,I sup-pose,a piece of Canadian regional history,but it has been writtenwith too much style,intelligence,and sense of the dramatic to bedeposited in that inhibiting category.For that matter,the regionMr Bird has investigated—Lake Champain and Lake George一was too central in the history of North America to be dismissedas merely of local interest.In the days of our beginnings this nar-row belt of water between the Adirondacks and the Green Moun-tains was kept as busy with warfare as the Niagara frontier.  \nNavies in the Mountains opens in the summer of 1603 whenSamuel de Champlain made a detour from the St Lawrence forfifteen miles up the River of the Iroquois.There he was stoppedby time and the hard-running current,but he returned six yearslater and went on to the lake that bears his name.  \nThe book concludes on Christmas Eve,1814,when \"the incon-clusive War of 1812 came officially to its dreary end.”By thattime there had been two hundred years of war for the lakes thatwere a sword pointed south towards the Hudson River and NewYork,and a lance thrust north towards Montreal.The modernborder between Canada and the United States leaves the two lakesin American territory and the Richelieu River on Canadian soil.  \nMr Bird is fortunate enough to have all sorts of drama andcolour at his disposal.The French expedition of 1603,of whichChamplain was second-in-command,had come to North Americato make allies of the Algonquin Indians and to find a site for atrading post in Algonquin territory.Six years later,with a warparty made up of Algonquins and Hurons,Champlain travelledfurther south to test the strength of the Mohawks,the most war-like of the five nations in the great Iroquois confederacy.It was abeginning of a no-man's-land about Lake Champlain.  \nIn 1704,a French and Indian war party pushed south anddestroyed the village of Deerfield,Massachusetts;they killed 48inhabitants,ana took more than 100 prisoners.In 1709,fifteenhundred men from New York,New Jersey,Pennsylvania,andConnecticut moved up the Hudson to attack Montreal when a sea-2 borne invasion of Quebec City had begun.But the invasion failed  \nto take place.Two years later the men from the colonies waitedagain.This time,the British fleet was wrecked near AnticostiIsland.  \nAnd so it goes.The two lakes and the upper reaches of theRichelieu River were a battleground during the Revolutionary Warand again in the war of 1812-14.The French built warships todominate the lakes;so did the British;and eventually,so did themilitary forces of the American colonies.(Mr Bird describes thespecial types of warships that were designed for the narrow andsuddenly wind-swept lakes in an appendix to his book.)The warsbrought some famous men to the remote lake district:Champlain,of course,Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys,the GeneralsCarleton and Burgoyne,and,mcst dashing of all,that imaginativeAmerican soldier(and,later,traitor)Benedict Arnold.  \nHarrison Bird,who was formerly Curator of the Fort Ticon-deroga Museum in the heart of the country he describes,writes abrisk,lively prose,and he has in addition the contemporary his-torian'sense of irony about the past.The wars that took placeamong he navies in the mountains were often bloody enough,andthey had a significance grea","cbCailMnfHFVLB2J","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailMnfHFVLB2J","pdf",4135532,17,"English","# Readers'Club Selection\n## Navies in the Mountains\n## An 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