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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"French Wars"”.
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Samuel de Champlain and the French Wars of Religion
… Military experience, gained during the Wars of Religion, prepared Champlain for violent encounters with Native Americans. Ties of patronage, which he began building during the wars, secured future support for his North American endeavor. Finally, his religious convictions elucidate the …
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English privateering during the Spanish and French wars, 1625-1630
From 1625 to 1630 England was actively involved in that wider, more general conflict which was sweeping across Europe during the first half of the seventeenth century. The main interest of King Charles lay in his determination to see the Palatinate restored to his brother-in-law. It was for this …
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The Experience of Soldiering: Civil-Military Relations and Popular Protest in England, 1790-1805.
… The enormous mobilization of manpower during the French Wars is often characterized as the culmination of this evolution. Arming to fight the French, it is argued, was a formative process, which encouraged greater social cohesion, and forged an overarching sense of national identity. This thesis …
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Foreign Seamen and the British Navy, 1793-1815
… seamen who served in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793-1815). It is a transnational social history of eighteenth-century state power, warfare, and migration, examining the legal terms of ‘foreigners’’ naval employment, the political and diplomatic …