A Surprising Account Of The Captivity And Escape Of P M Donald And A M Leod From The Chikkemogga Indians Written By Themselves
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Rebellion And Savagery
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Author : Geoffrey Plank
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2015-06-30
Rebellion And Savagery written by Geoffrey Plank and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-30 with History categories.
In the summer of 1745, Charles Edward Stuart, the grandson of England's King James II, landed on the western coast of Scotland intending to overthrow George II and restore the Stuart family to the throne. He gathered thousands of supporters, and the insurrection he led—the Jacobite Rising of 1745—was a crisis not only for Britain but for the entire British Empire. Rebellion and Savagery examines the 1745 rising and its aftermath on an imperial scale. Charles Edward gained support from the clans of the Scottish Highlands, communities that had long been derided as primitive. In 1745 the Jacobite Highlanders were denigrated both as rebels and as savages, and this double stigma helped provoke and legitimate the violence of the government's anti-Jacobite campaigns. Though the colonies stayed relatively peaceful in 1745, the rising inspired fear of a global conspiracy among Jacobites and other suspect groups, including North America's purported savages. The defeat of the rising transformed the leader of the army, the Duke of Cumberland, into a popular hero on both sides of the Atlantic. With unprecedented support for the maintenance of peacetime forces, Cumberland deployed new garrisons in the Scottish Highlands and also in the Mediterranean and North America. In all these places his troops were engaged in similar missions: demanding loyalty from all local inhabitants and advancing the cause of British civilization. The recent crisis gave a sense of urgency to their efforts. Confident that "a free people cannot oppress," the leaders of the army became Britain's most powerful and uncompromising imperialists. Geoffrey Plank argues that the events of 1745 marked a turning point in the fortunes of the British Empire by creating a new political interest in favor of aggressive imperialism, and also by sparking discussion of how the British should promote market-based economic relations in order to integrate indigenous peoples within their empire. The spread of these new political ideas was facilitated by a large-scale migration of people involved in the rising from Britain to the colonies, beginning with hundreds of prisoners seized on the field of battle and continuing in subsequent years to include thousands of men, women and children. Some of the migrants were former Jacobites and others had stood against the insurrection. The event affected all the British domains.
The Fatal Land
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Author : Matthew P. Dziennik
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2015-06-28
The Fatal Land written by Matthew P. Dziennik and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-28 with History categories.
More than 12,000 soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland were recruited to serve in Great Britain’s colonies in the Americas in the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century. In this compelling history, Matthew P. Dziennik 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 and, in doing so, transformed the most maligned region of the British Isles into an important center of the British Empire.
The Manufacture Of Scottish History
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Author : Ian L. Donnachie
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh : Polygon
Release Date : 1992
The Manufacture Of Scottish History written by Ian L. Donnachie and has been published by Edinburgh : Polygon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
Fighting For Identity
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Author : Steve Murdoch
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-07-26
Fighting For Identity written by Steve Murdoch and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-26 with History categories.
This volume examines the impact of military activity upon Scotland's national identity as the country underwent a fundamental transition through domestic centralisation at the turn of the seventeenth century, integration into the United Kingdom in 1707, and as a partner in Britain's global empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is divided into three thematic sections that examine the evolution of Scottish military identity over the early modern period, how the Highland region moved from a relationship of hostility to the Lowland political authorities to the central element in eighteenth and ninteenth century Scottish soldiering, and, finally, how aspects of Scotland's civilian society interrelated with her soldiers.
East India Patronage And The British State
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Author : George McGilvary
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2008-07-30
East India Patronage And The British State written by George McGilvary and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-30 with History categories.
The Act of Union in 1707 brought with it a new 'Great Britain'. How did the English bind the Scottish elites to the new British State, ensuring the stability of this new power in the face of possible Jacobite and international threat? From 1725 a patronage system existed in Britain enabling government ministries to use posts in the East India Company and its shipping to secure political majorities in Scotland and Westminster. Scots went to India as Company servants, ships' crews, soldiers and free-merchants, bringing back exceptional wealth to a land starved of money and providing for commercial and industrial advances throughout Great Britain. The importance of the system of patronage which enabled so many Scots to go to the East has not hitherto been recognised and cannot be overestimated. It bound the Scots with their English neighbours in business, political management and empire, with consequences going far beyond the eighteenth century.
Sons Of The Mountains
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Author : Ian McCulloch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Sons Of The Mountains written by Ian McCulloch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Highlands (Scotland) categories.
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.
More Fruitful Than The Soil
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Author : Andrew MacKillop
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Release Date : 2001-01-25
More Fruitful Than The Soil written by Andrew MacKillop and has been published by Birlinn Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-25 with History categories.
This book analyses the origins, development and impact of British Army recruiting in the Scottish Highlands in the period from 1739 to 1815. It examines the interaction of government, landlords and tenantry. Recruiting is analysed within the context of rapid socio-economic change. The emphasis is on tenant reactions to recruiting, and the study concludes that this was a vital factor in bringing about change in the tenurial structure in the region. Both the decline of the tacksman and the emergence of crofting are linked to the process of regiment raising. Military recruiting involved a clear recognition on the part of the Highland landlords and tenantry that the Empire and the 'fiscal military state' offered alternative sources of revenue. Both groups 'colonised' various levels of the state's military machine. As a result of this close involvement, the government remained a vital influence in the area well after 1745, and a major player in the region's economy. Recruiting was not simply a residue of clanship, rather it was a form of commercial activity, analogous to kelping.
Clanship Commerce And The House Of Stuart 1603 1788
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Author : Allan I. MacInnes
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Release Date : 2022-07-07
Clanship Commerce And The House Of Stuart 1603 1788 written by Allan I. MacInnes and has been published by Birlinn Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-07 with History categories.
This is an appraisal of clanship both with respect to its vitality and its eventual demise, in which the author views clanship as a socio-economic, as well as a political agency, deriving its strength from personal obligations and mutual service between chiefs and gentry and their clansmen. Its demise is attributed to the throwing over of these personal obligations by the clan elite, not to legislation or central government repression. The book discusses the impact on the clans of the inevitable shift, with the passage of time, from feudalism to capitalism, regardless of the "Forty Five". It draws upon estate papers, family correspondence, financial compacts, social bonds and recorded oral tradition rather than the biased records of central government.
Subverting Scotland S Past
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Author : Colin Kidd
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-12-18
Subverting Scotland S Past written by Colin Kidd and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-18 with History categories.
This book examines how the intellectual developments of the Scottish Enlightenment undermined Scotland's sense of nationalism.
Arts And Arms
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Author : M. John Cardwell
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2004
Arts And Arms written by M. John Cardwell and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Protagonists featured include: William Pitt; Henry Fox; the Duke of Newcastle; Lord Bute; George II and III; and Britain's ally Frederick II of Prussia. By placing literary works in a close political context they test the accuracy of the information conveyed against the correspondence and memoirs of politicians and parliamentary debates. The degree to which literature not only recorded, but also helped to shape political attitudes, is explored by its interaction with these and other expressions of opinion, such as popular protest and extra-parliamentary initiatives.