Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755-1763

by Stephen Brumwell

Book Overview

In the last decade, scholarship has highlighted the significance of the Seven Years War for the destiny of Britain's Atlantic empire. This major 2001 study offers an important perspective through a vivid and scholarly account of the regular troops at the sharp end of that conflict's bloody and decisive American campaigns. Sources are employed to challenge enduring stereotypes regarding both the social composition and military prowess of the 'redcoats'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521807832
• ISBN13: 9780521807838
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"