One of American history's lost stories, To The Outskirts of
Habitable Creation is the fascinating account of American and
Canadian convicts exiled to an Australian penal colony. In 1837 an
armed rebellion at Toronto against the colonial administration of
British Canada spilled across the border and U.S. citizens joined
the cause. The so-called Patriot War kept the frontier in a climate
of fear and uncertainty as a series of battles in Canadian
territory continued throughout 1838, in the hope of instigating
political change. With the failure of each attempt to cross into
Canada and revive the Rebellion, combatants were taken into
custody. Trials resulted in hangings, acquittals, or pardons. One
group of ninety-two prisoners, however, was sentenced to penal
transportation for life in Australia's far distant island of Van
Diemen's Land (Tasmania). Drawing on a wide variety of letters,
diaries, and personal reminiscences, the author tells the story
through the experiences of the men and women who lived it. A minor
epic, To the Outskirts...is more than the story of the Rebellion of
1837. in England and Australia during the second quarter of the
nineteenth century.
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