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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
EAN num: 9781841764832
ISBN number: 1841764833
Label: Osprey Publishing
Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 48
Printing Date: January 15, 2003
Publishing house: Osprey Publishing
Release Date: January 15, 2003
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From the earliest English settlements the survival of the infant colonies in North America depended upon local militias. Before the mid-18th century royal troops were seldom shipped out from Britain, and the main burden of successive wars with the American Indians, and with Britain's colonial rivals France and Spain, fell upon locally raised units, which also fought alongside the Crown forces during the major operations of the French-Indian War of the 1750s. This final book of a fascinating three-part study covers the militias and provincial troops raised in the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Georgia, Nova Scotia, Hudson's Bay and Quebec Province; and also Rangers, and colors and standards.
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A fine source on the militia, provincial troops, and rangers of all the original American colonies/states. The colour plates are an excellent source by themselves, and depict some very colorful uniforms and characters (particularly the Highlander-Georgian Private illustrated on the very first plate of the third volume). I would highly recommend these books for a casual reader or historian, or for military uniformists.
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Reading the works of Rene Chartrand is like eating a full course meal. Well served. Well formed. No Bad Taste. The information within is well served and in good quality. And quite filling for the mind.
In the five books of King Louis XV's army, the entire french military of the time period was well well served up like a Five Course Meal.
In the three books of Colonial American Troops we have a similar feast of accurate well served information on the pre-revolution american soldier. Which can also be served with the revised edition of Wolf's Army by Robin May and Gerry Embleton and the two books of General Washington's Army by Marko Zlatich and Peter Copeland.
For those who enjoy early american history, these three books are are an excellent find.
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Although there is no way to be totally accurate on these questions of uniforms, the folks here make very good educated guesses and the quality of the plates is great.
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Colonial American Troops 1610 - 1774 (1), is a recent Osprey Men-at-Arms (#366) by Rene Chartrand, with illustrations by David Rickman. In this book Mr. Chartrand attempts to give a brief history of the military forces within the American colonies. This very first of a three-volume set focuses on Virginia, New Sweden, and the New Netherlands. Not only does Chartrand investigate the colonial militias, he is also careful to highlight the presence of Royal troops within the colonies.
I found the book to very entertaining and informative, and thoroughly researched (despite the fact that he misspells my name as Tinsdale in the citations for his colour plates). It is highly appealing to see a work that touches on the seventeenth-century militias of the colonies, as these are often forgotten in the wake of works dealing with the French and Indian War, or the American War for Independence. Mr. Chartrand is obviously shrewd enough to realise that the provincial militias of the eighteenth-century cannot be fully understood without looking to their seventeenth-century origins.
The colour plates show a great amount of detail, and are careful to illustrate some of the more unusual (i.e. archaic) aspects of the early military forces within Virginia, and the New Netherlands. The pictures, too, lend themselves well to the text, though I did find that those concerning the eighteenth century did outnumber those dealing with the seventeenth. However, that is forgivable, as seventeenth-century colonial America has been ignored somewhat by the public interests.
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