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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Fatal Land: War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America (The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History). To get started finding Fatal Land: War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America (The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Fatal Land: War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America (The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Fatal Land: War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America (The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History). To get started finding Fatal Land: War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America (The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.