Umfang:
1 online resource (266 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780821444641
Serie:
War and Society in North America Ser.
Inhalt:
Protecting the Empire's Frontier tells stories of the roughly eighty officers who served in the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot, which served British interests in America during the crucial period from 1767 through 1776.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Early History of the Regiment -- North American Service -- Captain Hugh Lord's Detachment in Illinois -- Atlantic Seaboard Service -- 1 The Officer Corps of the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment -- The Makeup of the Officer Corps -- Officer Careers -- Courts-Martial and Discipline -- Wives and Children -- The Officers' Biographies -- 2 Field Officers -- Henry Folliott -- Isaac Hamilton -- John Saunders Sebright -- John Shee -- John Wilkins -- Adam Williamson -- 3 Captains and Captain Lieutenants -- Hugh Antrobus -- Thomas Batt -- William Blackwood -- Benjamin Chapman -- Charles Edmonstone -- John Evans -- Henry Fermor -- Robert Hamilton -- Matthew Lane -- Hugh Lord -- Benjamin Charnock Payne -- William Richardson -- George Stainforth -- John Stewart -- Lewis Wynne -- 4 Lieutenants -- George Bewes -- George Bruere -- William Conolly -- Edward Crosby -- John de Birniere -- John Peter DeLancey -- John Joyner Ellis -- Alexander Fowler -- Francis John Kelly -- John Mawby Jr. -- Marcus Paterson -- William Perkins -- Edmund Prideaux -- William Raymond -- William Smith -- Nicholas Trist -- 5 Ensigns and Volunteers -- James Aldcroft -- Charles Hoar -- Francis Howard -- George Mawby -- Sebright Mawby -- John Piercy -- Thomas Serle -- Henry Shaw -- William Henry Slator -- Godfrey Tracey -- Samuel Twentyman -- John Wilcocks -- 6 Staff Officers -- George Buttricke -- Edward Hand -- John Handamede -- Stanley Leathes -- John L. Lynn -- John Mawby Sr. -- Robert Jocelyn Newburgh -- William Smith -- Daniel Thomas -- Thomas Thomasson -- Samuel Turner -- 7 Absentee Officers -- Horace Churchill -- Caesar Colclough -- John Cope -- Thomas Cuming -- William Greaves -- Claudius Hamilton -- John Hamilton -- Benjamin Johnson -- John Wilmot Prideaux -- James Taylor Trevor.
Anmerkung:
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780821420546
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780821420546
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
