The Fatal Land: War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America
(Part of the The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0300196725
ISBN13:9780300196726
Release Date:June 2015
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"
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