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Scottish soldiers in France in the reign of the Sun King : nursery for men of honour / by Matthew Glozier

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Titre(s)
  • Scottish soldiers in France in the reign of the Sun King : nursery for men of honour / by Matthew Glozier
Auteur(s)
Adresse bibliographique
  • Leiden Boston : Brill, cop. 2004
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (XVI-290 p.) : ill., couv. ill. ; 25 cm
Collection
  • History of warfare 24 ISSN 1385-7827
ISBN
  • 90-04-13865-X
Appartient à la collection
  • History of warfare 24 ISSN 1385-7827
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 944/.0049163 22
Note(s)
  • Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Western Sydney) presented under the title : A 'Nursery for Men of Honour' : Scottish Military Service in France and The Netherlands, 1660-92
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. [263]-282. Index
Résumé ou extrait
  • The Scottish contribution to the armies of Louis XIV in the late 1600s was indeed small, admits Glozier (Medieval studies, U. of Sydney), but by no means insignificant, and more important because of what preceded them and what would follow. He argues that the participation was not part of the long alliance between Scotland and France, but was nothing more than the attempt by a relatively small body of men to maintain themselves in employment in a trade for which they were well trained and experienced, and to engage in a particular style of life they considered their birthright. They undoubtedly looked to the past as a guide to profit and occupation, he suggests, but were dismayed to find the whole system on which their employment, livelihood, and status depended challenged and transformed before their very visors
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