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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"American War of Independence"”.
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Representations of the American War of Independence in the late eighteenth-century English novel
For metropolitan Britons, the American War of Independence began as a traumatic civil war and ended as a global conflict that threatened the integrity of home and empire. This thesis examines the ways in which writers of popular fiction engaged with that crisis, considers why their preoccupation …
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"The Painful Task of Thinking Belongs To Me:" Rethinking Royal Navy Signal Reform during the American War of Independence
This thesis examines the context and causes of signal reform in the British Royal Navy during the American War of Independence. It argues that changes in the ethos of the officer corps before and during the American War of Independence led to a complex period of signal reform. The original system …
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Combined operations in the American War of Independence and the Naval War of 1812 in the North American theatre: a comparative study of strategy, tactics and effectiveness
This thesis examines the use of combined operations in the American War of Independence and the Naval War of 1812, hereafter referred to as the War of 1812. It compares the use of combined operations in both wars and examines the extent to which the use of combined operations contributed to the …
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The Atlantic Revolutions and the Movement of Information in the British and French Caribbean, c. 1763-1804
… the British and French Caribbean during a series of military conflicts from 1763 to 1804, including the American War of Independence (1775-1783), French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802), and the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). The colonies included in this study are Barbados, Jamaica, Guadeloupe, …
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James Magee (1707-1797) and the Belfast print trade, 1771-1781
… (1707-1797) and assesses his contribution towards the Belfast book trade in the eighteenth century. The first chapter discusses the peripheral nature of Belfast printing, outlining the details of Magee’s career (1735-1791) and examining his practices in terms of its provinciality. The second …
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An Unfortunate Affair: The Battle of Brier Creek and the Aftermath in Georgia
<p>The Battle of Brier Creek on March 3, 1779 has been overlooked for many years by historians of the American War of Independence in Georgia. Because it was so brief and did not include massive field armies, the importance of the battle has been ignored. This is unfortunate as the Battle of Brier …
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The recruitment of the British Army 1807-1815
The French Revolution created the first era of mass warfare, and all the major European powers were forced to address the needs of this unprecedented level of mobilisation. Such demands have been recognised by historians and reflected in the work that exists on war and society between 1793 and …
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Public quarrelling in the Romantic period: the rhetorical styles of John Burgoyne, Thomas Paine, William Cobbett, and Percy Bysshe Shelley
This thesis focuses on the concept and style of quarrelling in the writings of four British Romantic authors: General John Burgoyne (1722-1792), Thomas Paine (1737-1809), William Cobbett (1763-1835), and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). All four authors engaged in radical writing about war, …
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“GUNS AND SHIPS AND SO THE BALANCE SHIFTS”: USING ARTIFACT PATTERNING TO CONTEXTUALIZE A SALVAGED ASSEMBLAGE DATED TO THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN, 1781
… at Yorktown in 1781, he scuttled a portion of his shipping fleet along the Yorktown riverbank to defend the town from a Franco- American amphibious attack. An environment rife with maritime material culture, the river has been subject to formal and informal salvage, including a joint effort …