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Author Dziennik, Matthew P., 1984- author

Title The fatal land : war, empire, and the highland soldier in British America / Matthew P. Dziennik
Published New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 297 pages) : illustrations
Series The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
Contents A perfect purgatory: recruitment in the Scottish highlands -- Spirited martialists: the highlander as military laborer -- The same as other civilized people: colonial points of contact -- The blessing of peace: demobilization -- Land and interest in the Gaelic Atlantic world -- The soldier and highland culture
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Great Britain. Army -- Scottish regiments -- History -- 18th century
SUBJECT Great Britain. Army fast
Subject Soldiers -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century
Soldiers -- North America -- History -- 18th century
HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
Armed Forces -- Scottish regiments
Military participation -- Scottish
Soldiers
SUBJECT 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. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056839
Scotland -- History, Military -- 18th century
Subject Great Britain
North America
Scotland
United States
Genre/Form History
Military history
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300213508
0300213506