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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Seven Years War"”.
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La guerre sauvage: The Seven Years' War on the Virginia and Pennsylvania frontier
The Seven Years' War on the Virginia and Pennsylvania frontier was a devastating struggle. About two thousand colonists died, almost as many were captured, and tens of thousands fled for safety in the east. The British and their colonists proved unable to mount an effective military defence: …
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Patriots and Fribbles: Effeminacy and Politics in the Literature of the Seven Years’ War and its Aftermath, 1756-1774
… and foreignness in the literature of the Seven Years’ War and its aftermath, c. 1756-1772. Primarily, it is concerned with assessing how anxiety regarding effeminacy presents as a discourse of crisis within a diverse set of discrete, though densely worked debates, surrounding authorial …
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'Not in Glorious Battle Slain’: Disease and Death in the Royal Navy’s Western Squadron during the Seven Years’ War
The Seven Years’ War represented a period of great mobilization of British sailors and soldiers. Not only did men need to be found to man the ships and garrison the forts in the Western Squadron and North America, but they also needed to be fed and kept healthy during the conflict. Due to poor …
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Holding the line: the changing policies of the British Army with respect to Native Americans, 1759-1774
… Americans altered greatly; prior to Pontiac’s War Native American grievances were seen as a low priority by the army, but after that conflict the army started to pay a great deal of attention to Native American concerns. To explain these changes it is necessary to explore the changing …
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The civil-military conflict in British West Florida, 1763-1783
After the Seven Year's War, the British government decided to keep a large military force in North America. To coordinate these forces, the Crown decided to continue the office of Commander in Chief. The Commander in Chief had broad authority over the military in the American colonies. This …
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Scotland and the British army, c.1700-c.1750
… soldiers into its ranks during and after the Seven Years War. This thesis seeks to redress this by foregrounding all Scots and their earlier contribution to the British army. It does this by analysing the transition of Scottish soldiers from mercenaries in foreign service to soldiers of the …
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'Destructive and formidable': British infantry firepower, 1642-1765
… of British infantry during the English Civil Wars and then to trace a continuous line of development of doctrine and technique from then until 1765, in the immediate aftermath of the Seven Years War, when this study concludes. It has also been possible to analyse the battlefield effectiveness …
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Dressing Up the Past: Creating and Re-Creating Acadian Identity
… ancestors never wore this outfit. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Acadian settlers to what is today Canada’s Maritime region instead developed a distinct style of dress based on a mix of local and external influences, which differentiated them from their French origins and …