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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Revolutionary Wars"”.
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Dunmore's new world: Political culture in the British Empire, 1745--1796
… of the British West Indies during the French Revolutionary Wars. Quick to break with convention on behalf of the system that ensured his privilege, Dunmore was an usually transgressive imperialist whose career can be used to explore the boundaries of what was possible in the political cultures …
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Prelude in Tempore Belli
… of War</i>), a work written during the French Revolutionary Wars. It juxtaposes the sense of glory and nationalist pride held by civilians and governments during war with the harsh tragedy experienced by the soldiers sent to fight and their loved ones. The composition seeks to achieve this …
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Professional Identity of Army Officers in Britain and the Habsburg Monarchy 1740-1790
… the Austrian Succession to the eve of the French Revolutionary Wars. It illuminates the character of such an officer class of ‘Military Europe’ with its own cultural customs and practices. Furthermore, it details similarities, differences and peculiarities of both officer corps. This is achieved …
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The Atlantic Revolutions and the Movement of Information in the British and French Caribbean, c. 1763-1804
… 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, Martinique, and Saint-Domingue. This dissertation argues that the sociopolitical upheaval experienced by …
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Foreign Seamen and the British Navy, 1793-1815
… 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 background, …
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The role of national defence in British political debate, 1794-1812
… threat of a potential French invasion during the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France provoked a drive for centralisation. Nearly all the defence measures enacted during the period gave the government a much greater degree of control over British manpower and resources. The readiness …