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KANADAI MAGYAB^ MUNKÁS
1954 DECEKBER 8i|f» CSüTdlTr^K
U. S. bwasMn RepoM 1812-1814
(Front matériát in preparatícn íor the Peopte's History
" of Canada)
(Continued from last week). ^
VINCENT, at. Burlington, novir occupiéd a key position. Should Har-riaon jóin forces with the U. S. artoy on the Niagara, there was^ a fair chanCe of their takihg most ctf üpper Canada/PrevratjÖ^^ teristlcaüy, ordered Vinceht to abaiidon :hís positíóh. iié^ fail'^ Jto .comply with the order. Harrlswi, Instead of following up the víctory on the Thames, feli báck on Amheratburg.' '!:
Ihe boast őif the Léxingtoh Reöorder, in Octobeír, failéd to inate-rialize.lt had announced: "The loyal Cánadíana may lay ih an ád-ditional stock of wood, for our troops meán to apend the winter with them."- ■        ■     ; '
Instead, the U.S. troopa abandoned Fort George and crodsed the Niagara.
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Up TO NÓW, in addition to incompetent generals, the U.S. had been vlctim of » major flaw inits strategy. As Admiral Mahan ob-aerved, leng after:
"To make the Western territory and control of the Indíans the objects of the campaign was a political and nulitary motive perfectly allowable... but to make these things the objéctive of operations was to invert the. order of proceedings, as one who, desiring to feli a tree, should procure a ladder and begin cutting off-the outermost branches, instead of striking at the trunk by the groünd... The Canadían tree was rooted in the ocean, where it was nourished by the sea power of Great Britain... In fact, the nearer the sea control over the water communicationa^... (could) be established, the more radical and.far-reachlng the effect producéd. For this reason Montreal was the true objéctive of American efíort." ' .
Now, In the fali of 1813, a massive attempt to atrike at.the heart inatead of the extremities of tbe Canadian poaitlon, was set under way. Two great ..armles, one froni Sackétfa Harbor undejr WUkinson, the other from Plattaburg under Hampton, wero to converge on the St. lAwrenée.— sever Kingaton'a communicattons — and take Montreal.
X. Chrysler's Form, Fali of 1813
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WIUKINSON moved downstream from Sackett's^th 8,000 men in 180 great boats. At the.head of the Long Sault, just west of Comwall, á pursüing force caught up with the American rearguard. In a 'aharply fought engagement at Oiry^er's Fann, the U. S. force was worsted and suffered serlous loss. Wiikinson, however, proceeded with his main body to the appointed rendezvous with Hampton, at St, Regls. across from Ck>mwall. Here, to his discomfiture, he leamed that his opposite number would not be meeting him: he had, it appearéd,^ met with" an obstacle. Llke Wiikinson. but on a ríiore extended scale, Hampton waa beset by what the former in one of his dispatches de-scribed as "the active universal hostility of the inhabitanta of the country."
Xi. Choteaii^uay. Sept. 1813.
GENERAL Hampton, a wealthy Virginia land apeculktor. and the owner of 3,000 slaves, crossed the bordér into Canada on Sep-tember 20 with an army of 4,000 regulars, 1,500 militia, and ten can-non. Bedevilled by ceaseless, sudden small-scale attacks on the part^of militia detachments and Indians, led by Captain Joaepfa MalUoux, the invaders halted, and cast about for a more favorable line.of advance than that along the Richelieu. Hampton decided to try the line of the Chateauguay, movlng westward to Chateauguay Four Cömera, then down the river tö its confluence with the St. Lawrence, opposite La Chine. The movement to the Chateauguay took hla army a month. De Salabetry'and hia couple of hundred militia ánd Indians, "constantly needling the enemy, harassed hlm, killed aome of his meii, impeded his advance."
JPrevost; cauUoualy husbandlng bls main body of troöps, gave Uttle aupport to de Salaberry, vrb<^ handfal of pickets were all tiuit stood betweea the eaemy aod Montreal. On October 2Q> at a apot on íb» liver aelected bgr the Canadian oonunaader,. the three hundred ndUtla aad Indians, with aaotlier eouple of hundred In reeerve, made » atand agalnat tlie vaatly anperlor lavadlng foroe. By dint of good * generalship, hard flghQag, and a jrase whlcfa cauaed Hampton to thlnk ha was confrODted bgr a tauc^ larger force- than la fact be waa — tfae Canadlana cansed the enemy to retreat. Onoe started on his komeward .way, Hampton waa enconragad to contürae, whlch he dld — aU the wi^ baek to his atartlng polat at Plattahorg.
At Chateauguay, a militia force made lip overwhelmingly of French Canadiana had atopped the invadera in their tracks and thrown them back. Iliereby they had Hfted the moet aertous threat the Ca-nadaa faoed; a major converglng biow on the Ufe-Une of ^he At, Law-i«ace and MontreaL Aa C. P. Lucaa obocorea in hla hLitory of the war:
*^Iltherto the eause of Canada had b«en malnly In tbe keeping of Brttlah troopa aad aettlera of British birth; biit at Chateauguay p»lj F^rench Canadiana were cngaged, aad thia flfht proved t« a demoaatratlon tiUit the war waa a aatlonal war for Canada."
A aong written In 1812 by a militiaman, J. B. Frechetto (a printer who worked with the .Reform-leader, John Nellson of Québec City) volces the aptrit of reaiatance whlch gr«w up in French Canada in anRwer to the invadera: ^
"Oome fricnds let ua prepare — Sinco they want to wage a war. Let the Tankeea feel our blowa, Let'a conquer llke our alrca of yore....
"The day ot glory haa arrlved, Ii'a v»orth a hundred yeara of ttfo;
Hockey Star 8 Favor Soviel Visit
By Ubby Fine ' .
Bili 'Warwidk, atar player of the JPenticlon Vee,a» thlnka hlar team' would' be wUlhig to ga to tiMi Soviel; VnlMi If lovited iiilille inCanadlan^ Amateur Hoekey Assodatlon agreed, ha told Bfonlcfr Samnelsptt, cauűnpton B. C. repprtor.
. Last year's  AUkn Ctíp wíii-j nets, the Pentictonr team will be flying to West Germany on Feb.
aany
14 to put m their bidfor our, lost world hockey crown which now gleáms bríghtly among Soviet laurela.     ' - :
■ The CAHA rec'ently rejected; a Soviet bffé^^^^^ a hockeyj team /tő' make. an éxpénsé-&ee tour öftlié Soiyiet Union;" George Dtidley, Seörétary Manager of the CAHA said that the invita-; tioit was turnéd down because it arriyed áfter our schedules had b«en drawn up.
When Dudley was in Italy at á' sports meeting düring siumner a Soviet official hé met issued an invitation, wiach was cónfirmed; by wiré in Octóber. Büt it wasn't until November that news of this crept into the papers. Why wasn't it made, knqwn earlier?
/\ne of our all>time hockey ^ greats; Charlie Conacher, wai3 indignant when he heard about Canada's rejection of tiie Soviet offer.
Comménting on Dúdl^y^s statement Charlie ; told Champion, »r would think they could rearrange the. schedules. It's \ about time Dudley looked after-oúr amateur hockey. After all, Canada's suupposed to lead the world ■ in hockey. If there's á t&un représentative of good Canadian hockey, í think it would be a very good' thing for them to gö.« r
When wé were kids, we'd sit glued to the radip, ténsely lis-tening to . hockey bróadcasts. Charlie Conacher's name would come over the air waves time and again as he made his pre-sence felt. It seems he's still on the beam hockey-wise, although his playing days are over.
JOHNNY PEtRO, flashy left-wing scorer for the Lynd-hursts, was enthusiastic when Champion asked how he felt a^ut the Soviet invitation. The Lyiidhursts, the only Canadian teám to play the Soviet Union, represented Canada at the World    Championship Games
CHARUE CONACHER, 'ahown above In hla heydáy^ thlnka CAHA ahould rmurrange tiieir acheduíe to make time for Soviet vlalt.
last winter.
»We lost last year, but we spread a lot of good will,« he said. »I think it would be good if a Canadían team we^t over every year —not fór politics
w.. I but for sports. When we went over to Swe4en we léame^ a lot about Bportmani^hip and play* ing. Th^e!B a different feelihg aröund sports.*
The sentiments esqtressed }^ Cöp^chér and "Petro have a fia-milíaf ring. They are not nnsl-jíniliá^ tő the; statements-^^^^^^ las* year byi e^^ léyK and itóróld Cpttíto, When the; Soviet Uiiion; píoipösed that á top hötch Canadían team^^t their    land;    Cöwjey : ^said:. V i ^ . áports. is* the gre'atest iiíiúfc bétwéeíi cöühtrí   the world óf eh I: cLoii't^^ think' yóü'd/ have had any Ixoüble gettiiig any p£ thé old piros to inake such a trip.« Cottoii, who is how Chief scout for the Ghics^o Bruins, alsó very ent^^ said, > . . . Russia has started send-ing áthlétic teáms out; pf the coüntry, fiö we can at léast con-sider reciprocation when it is of* féred.«
r>UT when Conn Smythe, To-■ff rontó íilaple Léaf manáger, Went tó Europe to make arran-geménts for his club to toiír the Soviet Union, Canadian govem-ment officials in^ London turaed thümbs down. tTpon his retum to"Canada,; Smythe .said, »The feeling of Canadian offícials in London'was that this is nöt the time ^or such.a" tbíirw After all, the world sitüatiqn. There are more impórtant things goihg on now than-any hockey game.c
Could this goverhment attitűdé be connected with the C.A. HA. refusal now? ' While We^ tíanvappreciate Mr. Dudley's Cöncerh over the schedules, Cáuáda's entry* into the World Hockey Toiurnamént, the Pentictón V's will be flown to Europe in February, right in the middle pf the schedulé. Ar-rangéments were made for them tó be absent for two and one-half weeks, Mr. W. A. Hewitt, CAHA. Registrar-Treasiurer told Champion. Would it not be pos-sible for arrangements to be made for them to leave one month earlier than. plahned to play exhibition games in Europe "and the Soyiet Unión? Such ex-perience with somé of ih^ world's best players might help Canada regain our lost hockey crown.
Or would it be possible for the CAHA tó arrange a Soviet tour to take place after the games? As for the Soviet Ünion not having an indoor rihk—-in Mafch it is plenty cold enough there to play outside for it.was- ' n't until the end of Marchthát ^ the Soviet Ujiion held their own country's hockey finals last year. "
Such a tour would certainly help break the ice bctween Canada and our northem heighbor. ~ Courtesy of CHAMPION
1AJ06 UNGVÁRI, Koeauth-prízcy-wlnner aculptor, la ahown viocking o« hi» grotip of "STIJIWCNTS^ to be piacod la the Peopte's Stádium.
REaFRAIN:
One haa evcr lived to the full, When one haa aerved one'a country.
'X«t'B not fear thcae boaatera,
If they atep Into our provlnce,
Th«3r*ll flnd aome lads
Who'll make them change their tune!'
WE ARB
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By látván Szőke
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