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Mutiny: Highland Regiments in Revolt, 1743-1804

John Prebble

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Description:Highland soldiers were Britain's first colonial levies. first raised to police their own hills, then expended in imperial wars. The Gaelic people of the 18th century, three percent only of the population none the less supplied the Crown with sixty-five regiments. Contrary to romatic belief, the Highlander was rarely a willing soldier, his songs lament the day he put on the red coat. He was often recruited by threat, sold by the chiefs he trusted. Promises made to him were cynically broken. His pride was outraged by the lash, by contempt for his fierce attachment to his language and his dress. The family he hoped to protect by enlistment was frequently evicted in his absence and replaced by sheep. Mutinies were thus inevitable. This is the first account of them, much of it in the words of the soliders and their officers.It begins with the noble revolt of the Black Watch at Finchley in 1743 and ends with the mutiny of the starving Fencibles on Glasgow Green in 1804. It is a subject that has been curiously overlooked by historians, John Prebble properly sees it as essential to an understanding of the destruction of the Highland clans, the story of which he began with Culloden, and continued in The Highland Clearances.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mutiny: Highland Regiments in Revolt, 1743-1804. To get started finding Mutiny: Highland Regiments in Revolt, 1743-1804, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 542

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Penguin

Release: 1977

ISBN: 0140043284

Description: Highland soldiers were Britain's first colonial levies. first raised to police their own hills, then expended in imperial wars. The Gaelic people of the 18th century, three percent only of the population none the less supplied the Crown with sixty-five regiments. Contrary to romatic belief, the Highlander was rarely a willing soldier, his songs lament the day he put on the red coat. He was often recruited by threat, sold by the chiefs he trusted. Promises made to him were cynically broken. His pride was outraged by the lash, by contempt for his fierce attachment to his language and his dress. The family he hoped to protect by enlistment was frequently evicted in his absence and replaced by sheep. Mutinies were thus inevitable. This is the first account of them, much of it in the words of the soliders and their officers.It begins with the noble revolt of the Black Watch at Finchley in 1743 and ends with the mutiny of the starving Fencibles on Glasgow Green in 1804. It is a subject that has been curiously overlooked by historians, John Prebble properly sees it as essential to an understanding of the destruction of the Highland clans, the story of which he began with Culloden, and continued in The Highland Clearances.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mutiny: Highland Regiments in Revolt, 1743-1804. To get started finding Mutiny: Highland Regiments in Revolt, 1743-1804, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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