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Kevin Linch, Matthew McCormack
The British soldier was a fascinating and complex figure in the century between the Hanoverian accession and the Battle of Waterloo. The ‘war and society'approach has shed much light on Britain's frequent experience of conflict in this period, but
Autor:
Kevin Linch, Matthew Lord
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Redcoats to Tommies. :1-16
Autor:
Kevin Linch
The British army between 1783 and 1815 – the army that fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars – has received severe criticism and sometimes exaggerated praise from contemporaries and historians alike, and a balanced and perceptive
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Kevin Linch
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Northern Scotland. 10:208-210
Autor:
Kevin Linch, Matthew Lord
An examination of the lifecycle of soldiers, including enlistment, experiences of military life, the soldier's place in society and in politics, and military identity, memory and representation.This book surveys and examines the history of Britain's
Autor:
Kevin Linch
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 40:327-344
This article takes up Matthew McCormack’s appeal for the closer scrutiny of loyalism across the eighteenth century through a case study of the Portsmouth Volunteers at the height of the 1803-5 invasion scare. The part-time military forces of the to
Autor:
Kevin Linch
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Journal of World History. 29:108-110
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Kevin Linch
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Journal of Social History. 49:808-828
Desertion was significant drain on the British Army’s slender manpower resources during the Napoleonic Wars, despite severe military justice that could inflict the capital punishment for this military crime. This article explores the reasons why so
Autor:
Kevin Linch, Matthew McCormack
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History Compass. 13:288-296
The bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo offers an opportunity to think critically about the historiography of the Napoleonic Wars. This article argues that orthodox military histories of the period have tended to neglect the experience of the commo
Autor:
Matthew McCormack, Kevin Linch
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War in History. 20:144-159
This article offers a critique of the methodology of military history. The question of what constitutes a ‘soldier’ is usually taken for granted, but history of Britain’s military between the wars of the 1740s and the end of the Napoleonic Wars