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The Treason Trial and Execution of David McLane
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The Treason Trial and Execution of David McLane
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| Abstract |
David McLane (c. 1767-1797) was an insolvent architect-merchant, probably in his thirties, an American citizen, who had engaged in undercover subversive activity in Lower Canada (November 1796, May 1797) on behalf of revolutionary France. McLane's role was to recruit a "fifth column" of Canadiens to drug the British regulars, spike the cannon and create havoc in the capital as the French fleet approached to recapture Quebec. McLane was caught, tried for treason, found guilty, and hanged and quartered. The author examines the eighteenth-century law (the Treason Act, 1695 as amended in 1708) that was used to convict McLane.
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Manitoba Law Journal/Revue de droit Manitobain
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Vol. 20
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no. 1
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3-14
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1991
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en
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Greenwood, F. Murray. “The Treason Trial and Execution of David McLane.” Manitoba Law Journal/Revue de droit Manitobain Vol. 20, no. 1 (1991): 3–14. http://themanitobalawjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/articles/MLJ_20.1/The%20Treason%20Trial%20and%20Execution%20of%20David%20McLane.pdf.
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