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| Author | : Richard Holmes |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 542 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780393052114 |
Based on the letters and diaries of the British soldiers who served as the backbone of the army from 1760 to 1860, this illuminating book is rich in the history of a fascinating era. of illustrations.
| Author | : Stephen Brumwell |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 2006-01-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521675383 |
In the last decade, scholarship has highlighted the significance of the Seven Years War for the destiny of Britain's Atlantic empire. This major 2001 study offers an important perspective through a vivid and scholarly account of the regular troops at the sharp end of that conflict's bloody and decisive American campaigns. Sources are employed to challenge enduring stereotypes regarding both the social composition and military prowess of the 'redcoats'. This shows how the humble soldiers who fought from Novia Scotia to Cuba developed a powerful esprit de corps that equipped them to defy savage discipline in defence of their 'rights'. It traces the evolution of Britain's 'American Army' from a feeble, conservative and discredited organisation into a tough, flexible and innovative force whose victories ultimately won the respect of colonial Americans. By providing a voice for these neglected shock-troops of empire, Redcoats adds flesh and blood to Georgian Britain's 'sinews of power'.
| Author | : Kirsten A. Greer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : 9781469649832 |
During the nineteenth century, Britain maintained a complex network of garrisons to manage its global empire. While these bases helped the British project power and secure trade routes, they served more than just a strategic purpose. During their tours abroad, many British officers engaged in formal and informal scientific research. In this ambitious history of ornithology and empire, Kirsten A. Greer tracks British officers as they moved around the world, just as migratory birds traversed borders from season to season. Greer examines the lives, writings, and collections of a number of ornithologist-officers, arguing that the transnational encounters between military men and birds simultaneously shaped military strategy, ideas about race and masculinity, and conceptions of the British Empire. Collecting specimens and tracking migratory bird patterns enabled these men to map the British Empire and the world and therefore to exert imagined control over it. Through its examination of the influence of bird watching on military science and soldiers' contributions to ornithology, Red Coats and Wild Birds remaps empire, nature, and scientific inquiry in the nineteenth-century world.
| Author | : Philip Haythornthwaite |
| Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 343 |
| Release | : 2012-08-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1781599866 |
What was a British soldiers life like during the Napoleonic Wars? How was he recruited and trained? How did he live on home service and during service abroad? And what was his experience of battle? In this landmark book Philip Haythornthwaite traces the career of a British soldier from enlistment, through the key stages of his path through the military system, including combat, all the way to his eventual discharge. His fascinating account shows how varied the recruits of the day were, from urban dwellers and weavers to plowboys and laborers, and they came from all regions of the British Isles including Ireland and Scotland. Some of them may have justified the Duke of Wellingtons famous description of them as the scum of the earth. Yet these common soldiers were capable of extraordinary feats on campaign and on the battlefield that eventually turned the course of the war against Napoleon.
| Author | : Roger Norman Buckley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 1979-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780300022162 |
Buckley's acute analysis shows how the creation of a large body of slave soldiers caused dramatic modifications in the social order. To avoid conflict with police regulations, for example, it was necessary in 1807 for Parliament to manumit 10,000 military slaves by a single act. Slaves in Red Coats is the first systematic analysis of the effect of war on New World slavery.
| Author | : Ann Weil |
| Publisher | : Capstone |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 1429613106 |
Edge super high interest, low reading level books about great warriors in history.
| Author | : Constance Savery |
| Publisher | : Bethlehem Books |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 1999-04-18 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1883937426 |
In an interesting turnabout, the Revolutionary War is seen through the eyes of a British family to whom an American prisoner of war has been entrusted. Technically the young prisoner is in Uncle Lawrence's custody, but the children soon forge a forbidden friendship with him after he nearly dies in an attempted escape. He becomes the Reb and they, his Redcoats. But when they learn of some events leading to his coming to Europe, even Uncle Lawrence, embittered by the unjust death of a friend in America, thaws toward him-but this doesn't stop the Reb from scheming to escape. Constance Savery deftly weaves themes of trust and forgiveness into an interesting plot with likeable characters.
| Author | : Stuart Reid |
| Publisher | : Osprey Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1997-01-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781855325548 |
During this period, the British army earned itself a formidable reputation as a fighting force. However, due to its role as a police force at home, and demonisation by American propaganda during the American Revolution (1763-1776), the army was viewed as little removed from a penal institution run by aristocratic dilettantes. This view, still held by many today, is challenged by Stuart Reid, who paints a picture of an increasingly professional force. This was an important time of change and improvement for the British Army, and British Redcoat 1740-1793 fully brings this out in its comprehensive examination of the lives, conditions and experiences of the late 18th-century infantryman
| Author | : David Walsh |
| Publisher | : Bellwether Media |
| Total Pages | : 26 |
| Release | : 2011-08-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1600146279 |
"Engaging images accompany information about British Redcoats. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
| Author | : Christopher Hibbert |
| Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 2008-01-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1844156990 |
This book provides a thorough introduction to the War of American Independence. Told with great authority and clarity the book describes and details the effects of each notable event from 1770 to 1781. The book examines each of the major battles and skirmishes but does not get bogged down in deep analysis of battle formations and strategies. Instead the book concentrates on the war as a whole and its political and ecomonic impacts on Britain and America and consequently how each commander's startegy was affected. The book is littered with anecdotes to give the reader a clearer understanding of how the war affected the lives of those involved.
