Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America

by Vaughn Scribner

The Revolutionary War is often celebrated as marking the birth of American republicanism, liberty, and representative democracy. Yet for the tens of thousands of British and Hessian troops sent 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to wage war under alien skies, such a progressive picture, as Vaughn Scribner reveals, could not have been further from the truth. In Under Alien Skies , Scribner illustrates how foreign soldiers' negative perceptions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469680777
• ISBN13: 9781469680774
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"