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

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Label

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

Title remainder

war, empire, and the highland soldier in British America

Statement of responsibility

Matthew P. Dziennik

Creator

• Dziennik, Matthew P., 1984-

Author

• Dziennik, Matthew P., 1984-

Subject

• Great Britain -- History, Military -- 18th century
• Great Britain, Army
• Great Britain, Army -- Scottish regiments | History -- 18th century
• HISTORY -- Military | Other
• History
• Military history
• Military participation -- Scottish
• North America
• Scotland
• Scotland -- History, Military -- 18th century
• Soldiers
• Soldiers -- North America -- History -- 18th century
• Soldiers -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century
• TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science
• United States
• United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1754-1763 -- Participation, Scottish
• United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, Scottish
• 1700-1799
• Great Britain

Genre

• Military history
• History

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

355.0089/9163073

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

UA664

LC item number

.D98 2015eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history