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The Royal American Regiment - An Atlantic Microcosm, 1755-1772 (Paperback)
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The Royal American Regiment - An Atlantic Microcosm, 1755-1772 (Paperback)
Series: Campaigns and Commanders Series
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In the wake of Braddock's defeat at Fort Duquesne in 1755, the
British army raised the 60th, or Royal American, Regiment of Foot
to fight the French and Indian War. Each of the regiment's four
battalions saw action in pivotal battles throughout the conflict.
And as Alexander Campbell shows, the inclusion of foreign
mercenaries and immigrant colonists alongside British volunteers
made the RAR a microcosm of the Atlantic world. Not just a potent,
combat-ready force, it played a key role in trade, migration,
Indian diplomacy, and settlement. This book moves beyond the
campaign orientation of most regimental histories to explore how
the Royal Americans helped forge new Atlantic connections. Campbell
draws on the regiment's rich archival legacy - including the
private papers of its first three colonels-in-chief and of
mercenary field officers - to describe more fully than previous
accounts the lives these soldiers led in the context of their
times. Campbell takes a closer look at the motivations of
regimental founder James Prevost, a Swiss mercenary in the courts
of Kings George II and George III, and explores how migration to
America attracted rank-and-file soldiers. He examines the unit's
training, deployment, and operational conduct to reveal the use of
new tactics, and also chronicles a year in the soldiers' lives as
they attended to hard labor in preparation for the summer's
campaigns. He also traces the postwar activities of these veterans,
showing how many of them, by taking up land grants they had been
promised upon enlistment, helped settle the frontier and expand
commerce. Rather than focus on previously documented animosity
between British regulars and provincials, Campbell reveals how
soldiers from different backgrounds formed a multiracial,
multilingual society that reflected a truly cosmopolitan
transatlantic identity.
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