Michael P. Gabriel is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Major General Richard Montgomery: The Making of an American Hero. S. Pascale Dewey is Associate Professor of Modern Language Studies at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the American Council for Quebec Studies (ACQS) and the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) and has published widely on French Canada.
"Most historians assume that Canadians failed to support the American invasion of Canada in 1775. Through his superb introduction and editing of this largely unknown collection of reports by French Canadian seigneurs and priests, Michael Gabriel shows that only extensive controls and (relatively mild) punishments implemented by Governor Sir Guy Carleton and the French Canadian elite were able to prevent the Americans from receiving a good deal of support that was actually there. Gabriel's work makes the American invasion seem less foolish, more a plausible effort to liberate a sympathetic people than a blatant conquest, than it ever has in the historical literature. It also adds to the reputation of Carleton, one of the few competent generals the British possessed during the war."
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