Colonial American Troops 1610–1774 (2)

Download or read book Colonial American Troops 1610–1774 (2) written by René Chartrand and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2002-07-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest English settlements the survival of the infant colonies in North America depended upon local militias. Throughout the 17th and most of the 18th century royal troops were seldom shipped out from Britain, and the main burden of successive wars with the American Indians, and with the regular troops and militias of Britain's colonial rivals France and Spain, usually fell upon locally raised soldiers. These units also fought alongside the Crown forces during major operations such as the French-Indian War of the 1750s. This second of a fascinating three-part study covers the militias and provincial troops raised in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maryland, New York and New Jersey.