Genuine Letters from a Volunteer, in the British Service, at Quebec
Author: Volunteer in the British Service
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Published: 1760
Total Pages: 64
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Author: Volunteer in the British Service
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Published: 1760
Total Pages: 64
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Published: 1870
Total Pages: 464
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 908
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Author: Alexander V. Campbell
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2014-10-22
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 0806185333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the wake of Braddock’s defeat at Fort Duquesne in 1755, the British army raised the 60th, or Royal American, Regiment of Foot to fight the French and Indian War. Each of the regiment’s four battalions saw action in pivotal battles throughout the conflict. And as Alexander Campbell shows, the inclusion of foreign mercenaries and immigrant colonists alongside British volunteers made the RAR a microcosm of the Atlantic world. Not just a potent, combat-ready force, it played a key role in trade, migration, Indian diplomacy, and settlement. This book moves beyond the campaign orientation of most regimental histories to explore how the Royal Americans helped forge new Atlantic connections. Campbell draws on the regiment’s rich archival legacy—including the private papers of its first three colonels-in-chief and of mercenary field officers—to describe more fully than previous accounts the lives these soldiers led in the context of their times. Campbell takes a closer look at the motivations of regimental founder James Prevost, a Swiss mercenary in the courts of Kings George II and George III, and explores how migration to America attracted rank-and-file soldiers. He examines the unit’s training, deployment, and operational conduct to reveal the use of new tactics, and also chronicles a year in the soldiers’ lives as they attended to hard labor in preparation for the summer’s campaigns. He also traces the postwar activities of these veterans, showing how many of them, by taking up land grants they had been promised upon enlistment, helped settle the frontier and expand commerce. Rather than focus on previously documented animosity between British regulars and provincials, Campbell reveals how soldiers from different backgrounds formed a multiracial, multilingual society that reflected a truly cosmopolitan transatlantic identity
Author: Sir Arthur George Doughty
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 388
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alan McNairn
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780773515390
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe argues that Wolfe became the embodiment of British patriotism and the superiority of the English way of life, and that the multitude of literary and visual works about Wolfe, which focus primarily on his death, were created in an environment in which legends of inspiring, politically persuasive heroics were much in demand.
Author: Justin Winsor
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Published: 1887
Total Pages: 682
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Published: 1887
Total Pages: 688
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Publisher: London : [s.n.]
Published: 1881
Total Pages: 378
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Published: 1887
Total Pages: 686
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