Ebook: The fatal land: war, empire, and the Highland soldier in British America
Author: Great Britain. Army, Dziennik Matthew P
- Tags: Military participation--Scottish, Military history, History, Great Britain. -- Army -- Scottish regiments -- History -- 18th century, United States -- History -- French and Indian War 1754-1763 -- Participation Scottish, United States -- History -- Revolution 1775-1783 -- Participation Scottish, Great Britain -- History Military -- 18th century, Scotland -- History Military -- 18th century, Great Britain. -- Army, Military participation -- Scottish, Great Britain, Scotland, United States
- Series: Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- City: Great Britain;Scotland;United States
- Language: English
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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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