The British Army in North America in the Mid to Late Eighteenth Century: Teaching the Topic In High School Classrooms

Abstract

This thesis has three parts, a historiography and original research into the British soldier and the British army in North America in the mid to late eighteenth century, followed by the development of a course curriculum to provide students with a general understanding of the chain of events that shaped; firstly, the lead up to war in North America between Great Britain a n d France in the mid eighteenth century; secondly, the war itself (in America, called the "French and Indian War", 1756-63); and thirdly, the lead up to the American Revolution.