War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America
by
Prof. Matthew P. Dziennik
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2015
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...