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Fatal Land: War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America

Fatal Land: War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America

Dziennik, Matthew P.

Hardcover

Series: The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History

General United States HistoryGeneral World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 0300196725
ISBN13: 9780300196726
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Jun 30 2015
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
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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