NEW BOOK: THE FIRST COLONIAL SOLDIERS

The First Colonial Soldiers: A survey of British overseas territories and their garrisons 1650 – 1714

Volume 1: The British Isles, Europe, Africa and Asia. With an introduction by Professor John Childs, this volume covers the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, Dunkirk, Mardyck, Gibraltar, Minorca, Tangier, the West African settlements, St Helena and the Far Eastern outposts of the Honourable East India Company.

Volume 2: The Americas and the Caribbean. With an introduction by René Chartrand, his volume covers Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Hudson’s Bay, all the colonies of New England, British Honduras, British Guiana, Amazonia, The Miskito Coast, the Bermudas, Jamaica, the Bahamas, the Barbadoes, the Windward and the Leeward Islands.

THE BOOKS

These two volumes provide a survey of the military effort of Britain in the colonies and overseas territories in their earliest years. Volume 1 covers Europe, Africa and Asia and also surveys the Channel Islands and Isle of Man. Volume 2 covers North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. Together, they bring much detailed information together on the military forces and garrisons of the empire, much of which is unpublished and has been gathered from original source material. The books provide full lists of the officers the regular and militia forces in the colonies and overseas territories, including biographical details; they also give details of the expeditions that seized the territories, including in Volume 2, the part played by the militia regiments of New England and the West Indies. They are a must for any student of early colonial forces.

Features:

• Descriptions of every territory, its origins, the military forces employed to seize it and its later military establishment
• Detailed lists of regular garrisons, companies, regiments, colonial/provincial regulars and the Ordnance Office detachments
• Detailed lists of the Militia regiments
• Descriptions and lists of expeditions mounted by colonial troops, especially those against Quebec, Hispaniola, Guadeloupe and Martinique
• Survey of the various Companies and their garrisons (Royal African, Newfoundland, East India, Guinea and so on)
• Surveys of the Channel Islands ands Isle of Man
• Modern maps
• Contemporary plans and illustrations
• Introductions by two of the foremost historians of the period.

Vol 1, 320pp, ISBN 978-90-81888-2-1, will be available in November 2014
Vol 2, 520pp, ISBN 978-90-81888-3-8, will be available in March 2015.

Both Volumes Published by Drenth Publishing, Eindhoven, Netherlands,
http://www.drenthpublishing.nl

The Authors
Dr Wienand Drenth has already published work on British regiments in 1699 and 1714; Lieutenant-General Jonathon Riley served in the British Army for 39 years and has published 15 books to date.

Cost:
Vol 1
UK, £16; Europe, €20; US and Canada, $26
Vol 2
UK, £24.50; Europe, €30; US and Canada, $40
Discounted Price for two volumes
UK, £32; Europe, €40; US and Canada, $52

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