Merry Hearts Make Light Days: The War of 1812 Journal of Lieutenant John le Couteur, 104th Foot

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In June 1812, seventeen-year-old John Le Couteur, an officer in a Canadian regiment of the British army, arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to learn that war had broken out between the United States and Great Britain. For the next three years Le Couteur campaigned from Halifax to Fort Erie, and he...