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The fatal land : war, empire, and the highland soldier in British America /
More than 12,000 soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland were recruited to serve in Great Britain's colonies in the Americas in the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century. In this compelling history, Matthew P. Dziennik corrects the mythologized image of the Highland soldier as a...
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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