| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130.3

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Army and Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758–1775. By Michael N. McConnell. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xix, 211p. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95.)
Americans holding traditional hostility toward British soldiers who had been stationed in the American colonies may be surprised to learn from Michael N. McConnell's Army and Empire that, as A. A. Milne's Alice told Christopher Robin, "A soldier's life is terribly hard." Redcoats, sometimes vicious toward colonists, were themselves trapped and abused in the isolated forts west of the Appalachians. McConnell describes the culture and daily experiences of fort garrisons, mixing anthropological evidence with insightful analysis of written primary sources.	1
Opening the first chapter with Robert Rogers's 1760 expedition to occupy the surrendered French Great Lakes forts, McConnell examines details of time, distances, and circumstances of many later journeys from eastern departure points to the western forts. The British gradually reduced the number of fortified areas between 1763 and 1775, from three frontier regions with forts—Great Lakes, Ohio and Mississippi river valleys, and gulf coast—to two by the late 1760s as they completely withdrew from the Ohio-Mississippi. They also abandoned smaller forts in the other regions and downsized the remaining citadels, kept up to control major routes.	. . .

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