Download or read book Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America written by David Dobson and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1997 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book under consideration here marks the second in a series on Scottish colonial soldiers compiled by emigration authority David Dobson. (The first volume was published as two parts in one.) Working from manuscripts in the Acts of the Privy Council and the Calendar of British State Papers and published sources such as the Aberdeen Journal, the Edinburgh Advertiser, and the Georgia Gazette, the author has uncovered information on an additional 750 Scottish colonial solders not found in his earlier book. One such soldier was "John Wright, born in High Calton, Edinburgh, during 1728, an army sergeant who fought in the French and Indian War and in the American War of Independence, witnessed to death of Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham, died in Joppa, Edinburgh, in 1838, father of a Roman Catholic priest in Montreal."
Download or read book Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America written by David Dobson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America written by David Dobson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work examines why Scottish soldiers played an important role in defending the American colonies and in settling them.
Download or read book Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America Part Six written by David Dobson and published by Clearfield. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Dobson here identifies about 1,000 Scottish soldiers, arranged alphabetically. While descriptions vary widely, some or all of the following information is given: soldier's name, rank, military unit, date(s) and campaign(s) of service, place of birth, time of arrival in North America, civilian occupation, date and place of death, and the source of the information. Mr. Dobson searched manuscripts in the Acts of the Privy Council and the Calendar of British State Papers and published sources, such as the Aberdeen Journal, the Edinburgh Advertiser, and the Georgia Gazette.
Download or read book Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America written by David Dobson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America Part Seven written by David Dobson and published by Clearfield. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 17th and 18th centuries, many Scottish soldiers serving in the Americas permanently settled in the British colonies in North America, Canada, and the Caribbean.
Download or read book Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America Part Eight written by David Dobson and published by Clearfield. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 17th and 18th centuries, many Scottish soldiers serving in the Americas permanently settled in the British colonies in North America, Canada, and the Caribbean.
Download or read book Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America Part Five written by David Dobson and published by Clearfield. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America written by David Dobson and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book under consideration here marks the second in a series on Scottish colonial soldiers compiled by emigration authority David Dobson. (The first volume was published as two parts in one.) Working from manuscripts in the Acts of the Privy Council and the Calendar of British State Papers and published sources such as the Aberdeen Journal, the Edinburgh Advertiser, and the Georgia Gazette, the author has uncovered information on an additional 750 Scottish colonial solders not found in his earlier book. One such soldier was "John Wright, born in High Calton, Edinburgh, during 1728, an army sergeant who fought in the French and Indian War and in the American War of Independence, witnessed to death of Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham, died in Joppa, Edinburgh, in 1838, father of a Roman Catholic priest in Montreal."
Download or read book Scottish Emigration to Colonial America 1607 1785 written by David Dobson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before 1650, only a few hundred Scots had trickled into the American colonies, but by the early 1770s the number had risen to 10,000 per year. A conservative estimate of the total number of Scots who settled in North America prior to 1785 is around 150,000. Who were these Scots? What did they do? Where did they settle? What factors motivated their emigration? Dobson's work, based on original research on both sides of the Atlantic, comprehensively identifies the Scottish contribution to the settlement of North America prior to 1785, with particular emphasis on the seventeenth century.
Download or read book Scottish Soldiers in Europe and America 1600 1700 written by Dobson David and published by Clearfield. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Dobson is the foremost Scottish historian on Scottish emigration to Europe, colonial North America, and the Caribbean. This work traces Scottish soldiers who emigrated to various European countries and to the North American colonies in the 17th century.
Download or read book An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America written by J. P Maclean and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P Maclean
Download or read book The Scottish Soldier Abroad 1247 1967 written by Grant G. Simpson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1992 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twelve essays presents historical approaches to the lives of the variety of Scots who fought overseas from the 13th to the 20th century. Topics include: Scots in medieval Ireland; the Scots fighting as part of the 'Auld Alliance' with France in the 15th and 16th centuries; Scots active in warfare in early modern Russia; a Scottish NCO who was in Marlborough's wars and recorded his adventures in an autobiography; a shrewd colonial governor in early 18th-century America; Scottish military experiences in India; soldiers in Romantic fiction, especially Scott's Quentin Durward; the camp and barrack-room life of Scottish regiments in the 19th century; Scots in the Spanish Civil War; and Scottish soldiers as part of the final decades of the British Empire. While set against a military background, these studies also aim to investigate the social contexts in which Scottish soldiers functioned in many lands during a period of seven centuries. This volume is the second in a new series, the Mackie Monographs, based on the Mackie Symposia held in the University of Aberdeen, which have as their theme the historical study of Scotland's overseas links.
Download or read book Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations 1650 1775 written by David Dobson and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1983 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scots banished to the American plantations by Scottish courts due to various crimes between 1650-1775.
Download or read book Two Scottish Soldiers written by James Ferguson and published by Aberdeen : D. Wyllie. This book was released on 1888 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jacobites of Angus 1689 1746 written by David Dobson and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French and Indain War of 1756-1763, in particular, led to significant recruitment in Scotland for service in the American colonies. The experience gained by these soldiers was to influence their decision to settle or emigrate, subsequently, to America. Not surprisingly, the massive increase in emigration to America from the Scottish Highlands that occurred in the decade of the French and Indian War resulted to some extent from the influence of returning soldiers. For this book, Scottish emigration authority David Dobson identified over a thousand Scottish solders in colonial America. The list of soldiers is arranged alphabetically and, while the descriptions vary widely, the researcher will discover some or all of the following information in each one: soldier's name, rank, military unit, date(s) and campaign(s) of service, place of birth, when arrived in North America, civilian occupation, date and place of death, and the source of the information.
Download or read book The Fatal Land written by Matthew P. Dziennik and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Matthew P. Dziennik has written a compelling account of the Scottish Highland soldier and his service in Great Britain's American colonies during the French and Indian War and America's Revolutionary War. In the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century, the British state recruited more than twelve thousand soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland for the purpose of expanding and defending Britain's American empire, thereby transforming the most maligned region of the British Isles into a key sustainer of British imperialism. Dziennik's fascinating history corrects the mythologized image of the Highland soldier as a noble savage, a primitive if courageous relic of clanship, revealing instead how the Gaels used their military service to further their own interests in terms of material security and social status. Using both English and Gaelic sources, the author re-creates the experiences and the mindset of the Highland soldier in the New World and demonstrates in the process how a periphery of the British Isles became a center of the British Empire." -- [Tiré de la jaquette].
