A Bird's-eye view of the river Niagara from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario 1838 map
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'A Bird's-eye view of the river Niagara from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario shewing the situation and extend of Navy Island, and the towns and villages on the banks of the river in Canada and the United States with the situation of the Caroline Steam Boat off Schlosser'
The view was published to illustrate the Caroline affair, an international incident involving the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Canadas which started in 1837 and lasted until 1842. Hundreds of Americans who had been recruited by Upper Canada Rebellion leader William Lyon Mackenzie encamped on Navy Island on the Canadian side of the Niagara River. They had been brought there by the small American steamer Caroline, which had made several trips that day between Navy Island and Schlosser, New York. Late that night, a British force crossed the Niagara River to board and capture the vessel where it was moored at Schlosser's Landing in U.S. territory. Shots were exchanged and an American watchmaker was killed, before the force set fire to Caroline and set it adrift in the Niagara River, about two miles above Niagara Falls. The diplomatic crisis led to the Webster-Ashburton Treaty in 1842. The incident was used to establish the principle of the so-called Caroline test of "anticipatory self-defense" in international relations, which holds that it may be justified only in cases in which the "necessity of that self-defense is instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation".
Size 33 x 22 cm | 13.0 x 8.5 inches
Date Published: 1838
Type: Antique engraved bird's eye view with original hand colour. Very scarce
Author: Callington, W.R.
Publication: Joseph Robins, London
Condition: Good |
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