Osprey Men-at-Arms 383 : Colonial American Troops (3) 1610-1774

From the earliest English settlements the survival of the infant colonies in North America depended upon local militias. Before the mid-18th century royal troops were seldom shipped out from Britain, and the main burden of successive wars with the American Indians, and with Britain's colonial rivals France and Spain, fell upon locally raised units, which also fought alongside the Crown forces during the major operations of the French-Indian War of the 1750s. This book covers the militias and provincial troops raised in the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Georgia, Nova Scotia, Hudson's Bay and Quebec Province; and also Rangers, and colours and standards. Text by Rene Chartrand with illustrations by David Rickman.

Contents

• South Carolina
• North Carolina
• Pennsylvania
• Delaware
• Georgia
• Nova Scotia and Newfoundland
• Hudsons Bay
• Quebec Province
• The Rangers
• Colors and Standards
• Bibliography