![Dangerous Excitement [the Caroline Affair, the Patriot War, and the McLeod Incident]](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts221/v4/74/e7/00/74e700a5-fcd4-557f-2415-318c2b31cb54/mza_6124849643680600060.jpg/400x400bb.jpg "Dangerous Excitement [the Caroline Affair, the Patriot War, and the McLeod Incident]")
Dangerous Excitement [the Caroline Affair, the Patriot War, and the McLeod Incident]
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In 1837 Canadians tried and failed to overthrow the British government. The revolution seemed over... and then the Redcoats seized an American ship, set it on fire, and sent it over Niagara Falls, prolonging the conflict for years.
Transcript, sources and more available at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/dangerous-excitement/
Key sources for this episode include Edwin C. Guillet's The Lives and Times of the Patriots: An Account of the Rebellion in Upper Canada, 1837-1838, and of the Patriot Agitation in the United States, 1837-1842; Howard Jones's To The Webster-Ashburton Treaty: A Study in Anglo-American Relations, 1783-1843; Kenneth R. Stevens's Border Diplomacy: The Caroline and McLeod Affairs in Anglo-American-Canadian Relations, 1837-1842; Kyle Ward's History in the Making; Orrin Edward Tiffany's The Relations of the United States to the Canadian Rebellion of 1837-1838; R. Bruce Taylor's "Anxious Moments in Frontier History"; and Robert Remini's Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time.
Also, a special thanks to #28 for letting me borrow his copy of John Niven's Martin Van Buren: The Romantic Age of American Politics and hang on to it for far too long.
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