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Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750 : defending the union / / Victoria Henshaw



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Autore: Henshaw Victoria Visualizza persona
Titolo: Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750 : defending the union / / Victoria Henshaw Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New Delhi ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury, , 2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
Disciplina: 941.071
Soggetto geografico: Scotland History, Miltary
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- 1. Scotland's Professional Soldiers -- 2. The Scottish Soldier's Experience -- 3. The Scottish Soldier and the British State -- 4. Scotland's Auxiliary Forces -- 5. Scotland's Military Installations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Appendices -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: "The wholesale assimilation of Scots into the British Army is largely associated with the recruitment of Highlanders during and after the Seven Years War. This important new study demonstrates that the assimilation of Lowland and Highland Scots into the British Army was a salient feature of its history in the first half of the 18th century and was already well advanced by the outbreak of the Seven Years War. Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750 analyses the wider policing functions of the British Army, the role of Scotland's militia and the development of Scotland's military roads and institutions to provide a fuller understanding of the purpose and complexity of Scotland's military organisation and presence in Scotland in the turbulent decades between the Glorious Revolution and the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie, which has been too often simplified as an army of occupation for the suppression of Jacobitism. Instead, Victoria Henshaw reveals the complexities and difficulties experienced by Scottish soldiers of all ranks in the British Army as nationality, loyalty and prejudice clouded Scottish desires to use military service to defend the Glorious Revolution and the Union of 1707."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Titolo autorizzato: Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4725-0522-0
1-4742-6926-5
1-4742-1096-1
1-4725-1489-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910511635103321
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Serie: Bloomsbury studies in military history.