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The end of the Seven Years’ War found Britain’s professional army in America facing new and unfamiliar responsibilities. In addition to occupying the recently conquered French settlements in Canada, redcoats were ordered into the trans-Appalachian west, into the little-known and much disputed territories that lay between British, French, and Spanish America. There the soldiers found themselves serving as occupiers, police, and diplomats in a vast territory marked by extreme climatic variation—a world decidedly different from Britain or the settled American colonies.

Going beyond the war experience, Army and Empire examines the lives and experiences of British soldiers in the complex, evolving cultural frontiers of the West in British America. From the first appearance of the redcoats in the West until the outbreak of the American Revolution, Michael N. McConnell explores all aspects of peacetime service, including the soldiers’ diet and health, mental well-being, social life, transportation, clothing, and the built environments within which they lived and worked. McConnell looks at the army on the frontier for what it was: a collection of small communities of men, women, and children faced with the challenges of surviving on the far western edge of empire.

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Publié par	Nebraska Paperback
Date de parution	01 janvier 2005
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780803204799
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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Army and Empire

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studies in war, society, and the military

editors Mark Grimsley Ohio State University Peter Maslowski University of Nebraska editorial board D’Ann Campbell Austin Peay State University Mark A. Clodfelter National War College Brooks D. Simpson Arizona State University Roger J. Spiller Combat Studies Institute U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Fort Leavenworth Timothy H. E. Travers University of Calgary Arthur Waldron U.S. Naval War College

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Army and Empire

British Soldiers on the American Frontier,1758–1775

Michael N. McConnell

University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London

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©2004by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America  Library of Congress Cataloging inPublication Data McConnell, Michael N. (Michael Norman) British soldiers on the American frontier,1758–1775/ Michael N. McConnell. p. cm.—(Studies in war, society, and the military) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. isbn 0803232330(cl.: alk. paper)— isbn 0803204795(electronic) 1. Great Britain. Army—Military life. 2. Great Britain. Army—History—18th century.3. Frontier and pioneer life—United States.4. Great Britain— Colonies—America—Defenses. I. Title. II. Series. u767.m37 2004 973.2'7—dc22 2004008420

Set in Jansen by Kim Essman. Printed by ThomsonShore Inc.

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For my mother and father Joan S. McConnell Fred N. McConnell

and to the memory of Rose Ann Lee David Lee Elizabeth Thorpe

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Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The British Occupation of the West 2. Frontier Fortresses 3Society on the Frontier. Military 4Material Lives of Frontier Soldiers. The 5. The World of Work 6. Diet and Foodways 7and Mental Health. Physical Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Illustrations

Figures 1. Cantonment of forces,1766 2. Sir Jeffery Amherst, commander in chief,1759–63 3. Gen. Thomas Gage, commander in chief,1763–75 4. Draft of the Mississippi River,1765 5. General Forbes’s Marching Journal to the Ohio 6. Fort Pitt, November1759 7. Fort Ligonier, June1762 8. Plan of Fort Niagara,1764 9. View of Detroit, July25,1794 10. Sketch of the fort at Michilimackinac 11. Plan of Mobile,1770 12. Plan of Pensacola,1765 13. Women’s, men’s, and children’s shoes 14. Whistle, harp, whizzer, and marbles 15. Snuff box, ring, thimbles, pins, combs 16. Pencils, padlock, key, coins 17. Cooking and dining utensils 18. Map of Niagara River 19. Niagara River gorge from the west 20. Iron shovel and axe heads 21. One of two stone redoubts at Fort Niagara 22. Bake house at Fort Niagara 23. Chamber pot, toothbrush, medicine bottles, pill tile 24. Plan of CroftTown,1770 25. View of Fort Erie,1773

Maps 1. The Army and the West, end of1760 2. The Army and the West, summer1763 3. The Army and the West, end of1766 4. The Army and the West, summer1773