Download or read book The Fraser Highlanders written by J. Ralph Harper and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary focus of this book is their service in Canada, 1757-1763. They also served during the Revolutionary War as the 71st and the 84th Regiments. Also documents a group known as the 15th Fraser Fencibles, 1794-1802 and Lovat Scouts, 1899-1945.
Download or read book Highlanders written by James MacKillop and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebellion was recurrent in the Highlands because the Gaels (Scoti) were an often-oppressed indigenous minority in the nation, Scotland, to which they gave their name. They spoke a language, Gaelic, few outsiders would learn, and had their own family and social system, the clans. Warfare was bloody, culminating in the catastrophe of Culloden Moor during the doomed quest to restore the Stuart kingship to all of Britain. Economic hardship, including the near-genocidal Clearances, in which tenant farmers were replaced with sheep, drove the Gaels from the glens and islands, so that most today live in the diaspora, including millions in North America. Although the Gaels lack a single genetic identity, they clearly draw from distinct roots in the Irish, Norse and Picts. Despite their hardship, the Gaels are also presented in romantic portrayals by the artistic elite of other nations. This book offers ways in which the reader might find roots and ancestry in unfamiliar terrain. Chapters discuss the landscape and language of the Highlanders, the rise of clans, feuds and invasions, and eventual emigration.
Download or read book An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America written by J. P. MacLean and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America is a fascinating historical work by J.P. MacLean, a prominent Scottish-American historian. MacLean delves into the immigration and settlement of Scotch Highlanders in America, shedding light on their unique cultural traditions and the challenges they faced in adapting to a new land. This meticulously researched account offers valuable insights into an often-overlooked aspect of American history.
Download or read book A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans written by James Browne and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-30 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Download or read book A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans written by James Browne and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fraser s Highlanders written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 71st Fraser Highland Regiment in the American War of Independence written by Ed Brumby and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 71st Fraser Regiment was raised by Major General Simon Fraser of Lovat in December 1775 to fight in the American War of Independence. The Duchess of Gordon, at Fochabers in Moray, was an active recruiter for her brother Captain Hamilton Maxwell. This was long before her famous 'kiss and a shilling' for the recruits of the Gordon Highlanders. 2000 men were raised by officers from many clans and sailed along with the 42nd Regiment from Greenock in April 1776. About 500 men, together with their officers were captured off Boston and spent up to nearly two years in captivity, some working for American families. The war would see the 71st fighting in New York, Pennsylvania, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, finally being defeated at Yorktown Virginia...Some men chose to settle in Nova Scotia and nearby northern areas. Some deserted, and some finally made it home to Perth" -- Back cover.
Download or read book Maple Leaves written by Sir James MacPherson Le Moine and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sons of the Mountains written by Ian McCulloch and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informative history of early Highland regiments of the British army in North America. It collects essays on Highland weapons, uniforms, equipment, bagpipes and specialist soldiers, with a biographical register of various officers that served in the three regiments, including regimental muster rolls and returns.
Download or read book Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping 1745 1945 written by John G. Gibson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998-09-30 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bagpipe is one of the cultural icons of Scottish highlanders, but in the twentieth century traditional Scottish Gaelic piping has all but disappeared. Few recordings were ever made of traditional pipe music and there are almost no Gaelic-speaking pipers of the old school left. Recording an important aspect of Gaelic culture before it disappears, John Gibson chronicles the decline of traditional Highland Gaelic bagpiping - and Gaelic culture as a whole - and provides examples of traditional bagpipe music that have survived in the New World. Pulling together what is known of eighteenth-century West Highland piping and pipers and relating this to the effects of changing social conditions on traditional Scottish Gaelic piping since the suppression of the last Jacobite rebellion, Gibson presents a new interpretation of the decline of Gaelic piping and a new view of Gaelic society prior to the Highland diaspora. Refuting widely accepted opinions that after Culloden pipes and pipers were effectively banned in Scotland by the Disarming Act (1746), Gibson reveals that traditional dance bagpiping continued at least to the mid-nineteenth century. He argues that the dramatic depopulation of the Highlands in the nineteenth century was one of the main reasons for the decline of piping. Following the path of Scottish emigrants, Gibson traces the history of bagpiping in the New World and uncovers examples of late eighteenth-century traditional bagpiping and dance in Gaelic Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He argues that these anachronistic cultural forms provide a vital link to the vanished folk music and culture of the Scottish highlanders. This definitive study throws light on the ways pipers and piping contributed to social integration in the days of the clan system and on the decline in Scottish Gaelic culture following the abolition of clans. It also illuminates the cultural problems faced by all ethnic minorities assimilated into unitary multinational societies.
Download or read book The Scottish Settlers of America written by Stephen M. Millett and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon research conducted in both Scotland and the United States in manuscript and in published sources, David Dobson has here amassed all the genealogical data that we know of concerning members of the Society of Friends in Scotland prior to 1700 and the origins of Scottish Quakers living in East New Jersey in the 1680s. While there is great deal of variation in the descriptions of the roughly 500 Scottish Quakers listed in the volume, the entries typically give the individual's name, date or place of birth, and occupation, and sometimes the name of a spouse or date of marriage, name of parents, place and reason for imprisonment in Scotland, place of indenture, date of death, and the source of the information.
Download or read book The 48th Highlanders of Toronto written by Alexander Fraser and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The 48th Highlanders of Toronto" by Alexander Fraser. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book A History of the Scottish Highlands written by Thomas Maclauchlan and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Glimpses of Quebec During the Last Ten Years of French Domination 1749 59 written by Sir James MacPherson Le Moine and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transactions written by Literary and Historical Society of Quebec and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transactions of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec written by Literary and Historical Society of Quebec and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Revolution 5 volumes written by Spencer C. Tucker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 2459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 1,300 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of the American Revolution, this definitive scholarly reference covers the causes, course, and consequences of the war and the political, social, and military origins of the nation. This authoritative and complete encyclopedia covers not only the eight years of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) but also the decades leading up to the war, beginning with the French and Indian War, and the aftermath of the conflict, with an emphasis on the early American Republic. Volumes one through four contain a series of overview essays on the causes, course, and consequences of the American Revolution, followed by impeccably researched A–Z entries that address the full spectrum of political, social, and military matters that arose from the conflict. Each entry is cross-referenced to other entries and also lists books for further reading. In addition, there is a detailed bibliography, timeline, and glossary. A fifth volume is devoted to primary sources, each of which is accompanied by an insightful introduction that places the document in its proper historical context. The primary sources help readers to understand the myriad motivations behind the American Revolution; the diplomatic, military, and political maneuvering that took place during the conflict; and landmark documents that shaped the founding and early development of the United States.
