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Author : Brian Leigh Dunnigan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Necessity of Regularity in Quartering Soldiers written by Brian Leigh Dunnigan and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy L. Rhoden
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773560408
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book English Atlantics Revisited written by Nancy L. Rhoden and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007-08-09 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian K. Steele's pioneering work in imperial and early North American history was a pivotal contribution to the establishment of Atlantic history as a field. His study of a unified English - and later British - Atlantic challenged American exceptionalism and encouraged the current wave of interest in Atlantic studies.
Author : John Gilbert McCurdy
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501736620
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Quarters written by John Gilbert McCurdy and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Americans declared independence in 1776, they cited King George III "for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us." In Quarters, John Gilbert McCurdy explores the social and political history behind the charge, offering an authoritative account of the housing of British soldiers in America. Providing new interpretations and analysis of the Quartering Act of 1765, McCurdy sheds light on a misunderstood aspect of the American Revolution. Quarters unearths the vivid debate in eighteenth-century America over the meaning of place. It asks why the previously uncontroversial act of accommodating soldiers in one's house became an unconstitutional act. In so doing, Quarters reveals new dimensions of the origins of Americans' right to privacy. It also traces the transformation of military geography in the lead up to independence, asking how barracks changed cities and how attempts to reorder the empire and the borderland led the colonists to imagine a new nation. Quarters emphatically refutes the idea that the Quartering Act forced British soldiers in colonial houses, demonstrates the effectiveness of the Quartering Act at generating revenue, and examines aspects of the law long ignored, such as its application in the backcountry and its role in shaping Canadian provinces. Above all, Quarters argues that the lessons of accommodating British troops outlasted the Revolutionary War, profoundly affecting American notions of place. McCurdy shows that the Quartering Act had significant ramifications, codified in the Third Amendment, for contemporary ideas of the home as a place of domestic privacy, the city as a place without troops, and a nation with a civilian-led military.
Author : Justin M. Carroll
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628953128
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Download or read book The Merchant John Askin written by Justin M. Carroll and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Askin, a Scots-Irish migrant to North America, built his fur trade between the years 1758 and 1781 in the Great Lakes region of North America. His experience serves as a vista from which to view important aspects of the British Empire in North America. The close interrelationship between trade and empire enabled Askin’s economic triumphs but also made him vulnerable to the consequences of imperial conflicts and mismanagement. The ephemeral, contested nature of British authority during the 1760s and 1770s created openings for men like Askin to develop a trade of smuggling liquor or to challenge the Hudson’s Bay Company’s monopoly over the fur trade, and allowed them to boast in front of British officers of having the “Key of Canada” in their pockets. How British officials responded to and even sanctioned such activities demonstrates the vital importance of trade and empire working in concert. Askin’s life’s work speaks to the collusive nature of the British Empire—its vital need for the North American merchants, officials, and Indigenous communities to establish effective accommodating relationships, transgress boundaries (real or imagined), and reject certain regulations in order to achieve the empire’s goals.
Author : Alexander V. Campbell
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806185333
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Royal American Regiment written by Alexander V. Campbell and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of Braddock’s defeat at Fort Duquesne in 1755, the British army raised the 60th, or Royal American, Regiment of Foot to fight the French and Indian War. Each of the regiment’s four battalions saw action in pivotal battles throughout the conflict. And as Alexander Campbell shows, the inclusion of foreign mercenaries and immigrant colonists alongside British volunteers made the RAR a microcosm of the Atlantic world. Not just a potent, combat-ready force, it played a key role in trade, migration, Indian diplomacy, and settlement. This book moves beyond the campaign orientation of most regimental histories to explore how the Royal Americans helped forge new Atlantic connections. Campbell draws on the regiment’s rich archival legacy—including the private papers of its first three colonels-in-chief and of mercenary field officers—to describe more fully than previous accounts the lives these soldiers led in the context of their times. Campbell takes a closer look at the motivations of regimental founder James Prevost, a Swiss mercenary in the courts of Kings George II and George III, and explores how migration to America attracted rank-and-file soldiers. He examines the unit’s training, deployment, and operational conduct to reveal the use of new tactics, and also chronicles a year in the soldiers’ lives as they attended to hard labor in preparation for the summer’s campaigns. He also traces the postwar activities of these veterans, showing how many of them, by taking up land grants they had been promised upon enlistment, helped settle the frontier and expand commerce. Rather than focus on previously documented animosity between British regulars and provincials, Campbell reveals how soldiers from different backgrounds formed a multiracial, multilingual society that reflected a truly cosmopolitan transatlantic identity
Author : Bennet CUTHBERTSON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Cuthbertson's System for the Complete Interior Management and Oeconomy of a Battalion of Infantry written by Bennet CUTHBERTSON and published by . This book was released on 1776 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia Kay Scott
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663254591
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)
Download or read book Fort Niagara written by Patricia Kay Scott and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2023-08-27 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fort Niagara is located at the northern mouth of the Niagara River about twelve miles from Niagara Falls. This scenic river and world-famous tourist area, which is now shared by the United States and Canada, was Iroquois territory in the 18th century being fought over by France and England. Fort Niagara: The British Occupation 1759–1796 dramatically portrays how the British Army took Fort Niagara from the French and Indians in 1759 and held it for thirty-seven years while Indian, French, British, and American warriors and diplomates vied for control of the Niagara River and its portage route into the Great Lake. If the men who garrisoned Fort Niagara joined up to “see the world,” they probably didn’t anticipate being stationed at this isolated frontier post. It is doubtful that few, if any, of the thousands who served at Fort Niagara recalled their time there as the best part of their military life, even as one British officer wrote home that it wasn’t as bad as he had expected. Some died at the fort, in raids out of the fort, or by accidents in the icy cold and volatile waters of the Great Lakes. Others, thinking they were on their way home for a welcomed leave, were unexpectedly rerouted to Boston in 1775 and fought in the battles of Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, and other famous battles of the Revolution. This second book about Fort Niagara by Patricia Kay Scott and William E. Utley carries on the history presented in Fort Niagara, the Key to the Indian Oceans and the French Movement to Dominate North America, published in 2019.
Author : Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 994 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Selections from the Dispatches and General Orders of Field Marshall the Duke of Wellington written by Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Reports written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. A. B. Ronald
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1612005225
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Life of John André written by D. A. B. Ronald and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2019-01-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Britain’s spy chief during the Revolutionary War sheds new light on his conspiracy with Benedict Arnold—and his mysterious capture. John André was head of the British Army’s Secret Service in North America as the Revolutionary War entered its most decisive phase. In 1780, he masterminded the defection of the high-ranking American general Benedict Arnold. As the commander of West Point, Arnold agreed to turn the strategically vital fort over to the British. André and Arnold also conspired to kidnap George Washington. The secret negotiations between Arnold and André were protracted and fraught with danger. Arnold’s wife Peggy acted as go-between until September 21st, 1780, when the two men met face to face in no-man’s-land. But then André was captured forty-eight hours later, having broken every condition set by his commanding officer: he was within American lines, wearing civilian clothes, and carrying maps of West Point in his boots. When he announced himself as a spy, the Americans had no recourse. Tried by a military tribunal, he was convicted and hanged. André’s motives for his apparent sacrifice have baffled historians for generations. This biography provides a provocative answer to this mystery—explaining not only why he acted as he did, but how he wished others to see his actions.
Author : Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Selections from the Dispatches and General Orders of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington written by Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Report ... written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Großbritannien Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Report written by Großbritannien Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Wellesley of Wellington
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 992 pages
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Download or read book Selections from the Dispatches and General Orders of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington written by Arthur Wellesley of Wellington and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Caulfeild Earl of Charlemont
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Manuscripts and Correspondence of James, First Earl of Charlemont written by James Caulfeild Earl of Charlemont and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Penelope B. Drooker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Soldiers, Cities, and Landscapes written by Penelope B. Drooker and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
