Description
Whether trudging through alligator-infested swamps, nursing a comrade back to health in a rain-sodden tent, or digging trenches in a burned-out port city, most who fought in America under the British army's flag ultimately deemed themselves strangers fighting in a strange land. For them, Revolutionary America looked nothing like the ""happy land blessed with every climate"" that Revolutionary republicans so successfully promoted. Instead, the War of Independence descended into a quagmire of anxiety, destruction, and distress at the hands of the American environment—a ""Diabolical Country,"" as one British soldier opined, ""which no Earthly Compensation can put me in Charity with.
Book Information
ISBN 9781469680774
Author Vaughn Scribner
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press