The more I read, the more I tend to agree with the saying, “History is written by the victors”. As such, the history I was taught in school, tended to avoid any mention of occasions when the British were not victorious! Hence it was, that while we studied how Britain triumphed over the French, (and Americans), in Canada, very little was taught about the dreadful cost in lives and money, spent by George lll in trying to retain his American colonies.

It was a chance visit to the Redcoats Museum i...