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The fatal land: war, empire, and the Highland soldier in British America

By Matthew P , Great Britain. Army;Dziennik

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780300213508, 0300213506
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3660077 bytes)
Series
Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
Pages
illustrations (black and white)\314
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
1754-1763 -- Participation1775-1783 -- ParticipationMilitary -- 18th century;Great Britain. -- Army;MiMilitary -- 18th century;Scotland -- HistoryMilitary participation--Scottish;Military history;Scottish;Great Britain -- HistoryScottish;United States -- History -- Revolution

Description

More than 12,000 soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland were recruited to serve in Great Britain's colonies in the Americas in the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century. In this compelling history, Matthew P. Dziennik corrects the mythologized image of the Highland soldier as a noble savage, a primitive if courageous relic of clanship, revealing instead how the Gaels used their military service to further their own interests and, in doing so, transformed the most maligned region of the British Isles into an important center of the British Empire.

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