Talk:2nd Canadian Regiment

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[edit] Coos Country

Regretfully, I had to remove the link to Coos County, NH. "Coos Country" is an area in northern Vermont and not a county in New Hampshire. Obviously there are some influences (i.e. Whitcomb Rangers and Bedels troops), but these two areas are not the same. I have spent many hours pouring over references relating to both areas and I visited the area and retraced the Bayley-Hazen Road in 2004. "Coos Country" is now referred to the "Northern Kingdom" area of Vermont. There is even the quaint town of Cohoes in New York on the Mohawk River near Albany, NY. I first visited Cohoes, NY thinking I was discovering "Coos Country" and was corrected by the locals. All of these places are related, I think, as Hazen and the Canadian Refugees settled in New York's Capital Region, near Cohoes, NY, after the War. Armycaptain 04:54, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed Map

I've been working on a map for this article. It is a schematic map in order to help people understand the movement of the regiment. (Etienne2007 01:40, 18 March 2007 (UTC))

Movement of the COR Regiment
Movement of the COR Regiment

[edit] Translation in French

I also translate this article in French and I added some information like the latin motto of the regiment and the Brown color and the COR letter in script (all those information comme from the SAR uniform web page)

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_Own_Regiment

I put on the translation a link to this english article to give proper credit to the work that was done here.

I keep learning about those event and I learn some other name to add to the list. In my french version I included the name of the people I know were there and related people who work around the regiment. I still have a lot of Info like a Maurice who serve for a time and a recollet priest who was with the regiment. And the storie of Philippe de Liebert who will become a extremely famous religious sculpture maker in quebec...and was captain of the COR regiment (I have the picture of one of his religious statue)

Let me know if you like the map and the flag of the regiment I prepared, and if you want to add it to the article

Once again thank you for this work, I've learned a lot with it :-)

[edit] Bloated?

This page is getting very bloated with the vetern records and the citations in the main "Details" section. It makes it very hard to read and there is no need to put up every link to websites of family members who served in this regiment. It just makes for a bad article. Marc29th 13:55, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Finally someone is taking the time to bring all the scattered documentation available about this regiment and give it, and their members, due credit. Care is being given to provide verifiable sources for the article. Armycaptain 17:29, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm just glad so much has been written. Had ancestors that fought with the 1st Candian Regiment and information regarding the Candian Refugees units with Moses Hazen has always been scarce. It does need work. I'll see if I can lend a hand sometime. Kudos to the researcher(s)! AroostookGeorge 13:59, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Now that this artical has been expanded the quotes and weblinks seem much less overwhelming. Good job to you User:Armycaptain this is the best of all the Cont. Army stubs I started. Marc29th 21:03, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Marc, thank you very much for your recent comment! I feel I redeemed myself a bit after a seemingly rough start. You can't make an omelette unless you crack some eggs! Thank you for starting this stub!Armycaptain 04:54, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Armycaptain

This is armycaptain. Most of the non-logged edits have been from me, also. I am really excited about this article because it gives me an opportunity to share the history of this regiment. I have studied this regiment for almost 10 years and have visited all the encampment and battlefield sites (except for Yorktown). I have visited many institutions (U.S. Army of Military History, Historical Society of Penna., David Library of the American Revolution, Soc. of the Cincinnati, and so on) and have examined the original orderly books and letters. Using this knowledge, I have contributed to this article using only Internet sources and the well-respected secondary work by Everest. From these sources, the details that I have contributed regarding places, movements and assignments are factual and accurate. My primary research confirms them. The compilation of veteran records (with citations) is also very unique and are placed in a separate section to ease reference. Many of these particular veterans, i.e. Captain Duncan and Lt. Colonel Antill are important persons that shaped the regiment. This article is an excellent Wikipedia example of how detailed and comprehensive information can be compiled from the Internet. I am honored and pleased to share my research with all of you.Armycaptain 22:08, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Citation note

Format note: source notes need formatting as per Wikipedia:Footnotes Verne Equinox 20:06, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Yep, I would love to see someone format the footnotes Wikipedia style because I don't know how to. Armycaptain 22:36, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Ooops.Once again I made edits and forgot to sign in. My recent contributions include segmenting the body of text by campaign season and notable battles. I also recently expanded these battles (some of them only regarded as skirmishes when they occurred) and added the troop strength and casualty sections.

I tired to Wikify the citations by inserting the HTTP into the [] brackets but was horrified when this started a whole new citation numbering system! I had to remove them. If someone more experienced could help please. Armycaptain 14:10, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

I just reformatted the top footnote. I would like to do a few more, but wanted to make sure that the bracketed footnotes at the top match the hand numbered article at the bottom. We will format them like web page references, not books. This is a bit confusing with the book being online.
One the footnotes are inserted correctly, new material can be inserted, old material deleted or replaced, without fear of "messing up" the numbering at the bottom. The Wiki macro will keep up with it for us.Student7 02:00, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
Okay, I've reformatted the first [5] and [12]. I think you can see how to do this. Not all of your footnote will be included. You can add text footnotes, as well, but those have their own distinct format. It would be show up as a third footnote in that first sentence. The substitute for the old first [5] can now be copies and replace the remaining [5]s. Same with the remaining [12]s.
Get back to me if you have any questions.Student7 21:07, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
You don't need bracketed items in Wikipedia as footnotes. For example, just delete [32] for John Andre.Student7 21:12, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Student7, despite your guidance and attempts to explain citations to me, I do not understand it. I will let those more capable than me fix my citations, if they so desire. Please use the Discussion page to respond and not the Edit summary (used to briefly describe changes) sectionArmycaptain 16:49, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ArmyCaptain Battlefield Tours

Today I took a battlefield tour of Germantown. I visited the Chew House and was given a tour and reviewed maps of the battle. I also drove through Germantown reviewing the battlespace; distances, troop positions, terrain, obstacles, etc. I did this to confirm the various accounts of the battle of Germantown that I have referenced in this article and utilize the most reliable and accurate. Armycaptain 01:07, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

On November 27th and December 2nd 2006, I visited Staten Island to confirm the information about the Staten Island battles that I have referenced in this article.

August 22, 1777 battle research:

New Blazing Star Ferry: At Carteret, I found the ruins of the New Blazing Star ferry landing. This is located on Roosevelt Ave. at a bend in the road. I then went to Travis, NY where I confirmed that the Staten Island-side of the landing is, in fact, at the end of Victory Boulevard.

The Old Blazing Star landing/ferry: was located about a mile south of the New Blazing Star ferry. In vicinity of the end of Port Carteret Drive just below Passaic Ave. In between these two ferry landings on Staten Island is the Fresk Kills landfill. American flags can be seen at this landfill noting where debris from September 11th is located.

January 14-15, 1780 battle research:

Tompkinsville - St. George: I then went to Tompkinsville to study where the British encampments were. The actual redoubts were located just to the north in the town of St. George. I drove north along Richmond Terrace and then north along St. Marks to Fort Hill Circle. This circle is good high ground that may have provided the British a good observation point to monitor both the Upper Newark Bay to the east and the sluiceway to the north connecting the Upper Newark Bay to the Newark Bay. Tompkinsville is where the main British forces landed in 1776 to quell the rebels.

I then went to Elizabethpoint to find the spot where the Americans crossed over on ice to Staten Island. This was easy, as the City of Elizabeth has a nice park there with American flags dedicated to veterans at the end of Elizabeth Avenue. A bar - restaurant is located here that serves barbeque ribs. It appears to match the location of a tavern on this spot in old revolutionary war-era maps Armycaptain 02:02, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Excellent article, congratulation and thank you

I will just add some random information that may help your research Here is my article on clément gosselin life : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Cl%C3%A9ment_Gosselin Since I live in Montréal I have access to all stuff related to the regiment in Québec so if you have any question I will try to answer them... I have tons of information on Edward Antill and his quebecker wife Charlotte, I'll just type all the name I can remember now...Louis Marney Jr and Sr Pierre Ayotte, Laurent-Bruno Trombly, Alexandre Feriol, Germain Dionne (father in Law of Clément) Louis is older brother, Thomas Sauvage, Jean-Baptiste Hamelin, I have access to very good book on the subject and in Quebec we have 3 people who did a survey Baby, Tasherau, Williams (pro-British) who counted all the quebecker who help the american in Québec so we have all their name... I have picture of the regiment coat and hat with...of Edward Antill and maybe Livingston of the 1st regiment(not 100 % sure it's him) Many other Quebecker helped Washington army like admiral Louis-Philippe de Vaudreuil who was also friend of Ben Franklin...I'm writting a book about them...(365 pages so far...) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Philippe_de_Vaudreuil I have picture of Louis-Philippe and all his cousin who all helped the american including a very close friend of Beaumarchais in Paris...see the link: http://www.batguano.com/catno14.html Quebec was successfully defended from Phipps in 1690 by Philippe de Vaudreuil their grand-father... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Etienne2007 (talk • contribs) 23:51, 19 January 2007 (UTC).

This is great information! Thank You. Edward Antill was very important to the Regiment.Armycaptain 22:22, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

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