Tours in Scotland
Title | Tours in Scotland PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Pococke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 1887 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750
Title | Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750 PDF eBook |
Author | Victoria Henshaw |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2014-06-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1472514890 |
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.
Colonists from Scotland
Title | Colonists from Scotland PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Charles Cargill Graham |
Publisher | Genealogical Publishing Com |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2009-06 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 0806345179 |
This distinguished monograph is a treatise on the causes and character of Scottish emigration to North America prior to the American Revolution. Entire chapters are then devoted to Lowland and Highland emigration, forced transportation of felons and the drafting of Scottish troops to the colonies, rising rents and other factors in the Scottish social structure, and the British government's role in colonization. Three concluding chapters cover the geographical centers of Scottish settlement--especially the Carolinas.
The Tour of Dr. Richard Pococke, Lord Bishop of Ossory, Through Sutherland and Caithness in 1760
Title | The Tour of Dr. Richard Pococke, Lord Bishop of Ossory, Through Sutherland and Caithness in 1760 PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Pococke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 1888 |
Genre | Bishops |
ISBN |
History of Scotland: From the revolution of 1689 to the disruption, 1843
Title | History of Scotland: From the revolution of 1689 to the disruption, 1843 PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Hume Brown |
Publisher | |
Pages | 520 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Scotland |
ISBN |
History of Scotland: From the Revolution of 1689 to the Disruption
Title | History of Scotland: From the Revolution of 1689 to the Disruption PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Hume Brown |
Publisher | |
Pages | 520 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Scotland |
ISBN |
Culloden
Title | Culloden PDF eBook |
Author | Murray Pittock |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746 |
ISBN | 0199664072 |
The story of Culloden, one of the most important battles in Scottish history - how it was fought, how it has been remembered, and what it has come to mean.