How did an ambitious British army officer advance his career in mid-eighteenth-century North America? What was the nature of political opportunism in an imperial system encompassing an old world and a new?
This study examines the career of an Anglo-Irish-Acadian army officer, treating in considerable detail the network of old-world connections and patrons which at times facilitated his advancement. John Bradstreet was born in Nova Scotia and died in New York. He was a major participant in colonial North American military events ranging from the capture of Louisbourg in 1745 to...
How did an ambitious British army officer advance his career in mid-eighteenth-century North America? What was the nature of political opportunism...
