Scotland and the British Army, 1700–1750: Defending the Union

✍ Scribed by Victoria Henshaw

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 314
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The wholesale assimilation of Scots into the British Army is largely associated with the recruitment of Highlanders during and after the Seven Years War. This important new study demonstrates that the assimilation of Lowland and Highland Scots into the British Army was a salient feature of its history in the first half of the 18th century and was already well advanced by the outbreak of the Seven Years War. Scotland and the British Army, 1700–1750 analyses the wider policing functions of the British Army, the role of Scotland’s militia and the development of Scotland’s military roads and institutions to provide a fuller understanding of the purpose and complexity of Scotland’s military organisation and presence in Scotland in the turbulent decades between the Glorious Revolution and the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie, which has been too often simplified as an army of occupation for the suppression of Jacobitism. Instead, Victoria Henshaw reveals the complexities and difficulties experienced by Scottish soldiers of all ranks in the British Army as nationality, loyalty and prejudice clouded Scottish desires to use military service to defend the Glorious Revolution and the Union of 1707.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Illustrations
Introduction
Literature review
Research questions
Chapter summaries
Methodology
Sources
Terminology
1 Scotland’s Professional Soldiers
Introduction
The changing nature of armies
Scots in service abroad
Scots in British service
Conclusion
2 The Scottish Soldier’s Experience
Introduction
Joining the colours
Drill, discipline and punishment
Duties of a soldier
Billeting and barracks
Conclusion
3 The Scottish Soldier and the British State
Introduction
Stalwarts
Pragmatists
Trimmers
Conclusion
4 Scotland’s Auxiliary Forces
Introduction
The development of the militia
The effect of the Union on militias
The purpose of the militia
Raising a militia regiment
Unravelling the militia-fencible tangle
Other auxiliary forces
The significance of militia use in Scotland
Conclusion
5 Scotland’s Military Installations
Introduction
Key fortifications, pre- and post-Union
The location, purpose and strength of fortifications
Road building
The successes and failures of Scotland’s fortifications
Fortifications as a measure of governmental interest
The Ordnance Office
Conclusion
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index