{"product_id":"9781469680767-under-alien-skies","title":"Under Alien Skies","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnvironment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America\u003cbr\u003eThe Revolutionary War is often celebrated as the marking the birth of American republicanism, liberty, and representative democracy. Yet for the tens of thousands of British and Hessian troops sent across the Atlantic Ocean to wage war under alien skies, such a progressive picture, as Scribner reveals, could not have been further from the truth.\u003cbr\u003eThe Revolutionary War is often celebrated as the marking the birth of American republicanism, liberty, and representative democracy. Yet for the tens of thousands of British and Hessian troops sent 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to wage war under alien skies, such a progressive picture, as Vaughn Scribner reveals, could not have been further from the truth. In \u003ci\u003eUnder Alien Skies \u003ci\u003e, Scribner illustrates how foreign soldiers' negative perceptions of the American environment merged with harsh wartime realities to elicit considerable physical, mental, and emotional anguish.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether trudging through alligator-infested swamps, nursing a comrade back to health in a rain-sodden tent, or digging trenches in a burned-out port city, most who fought in America under the British army's flag ultimately deemed themselves strangers fighting in a strange land. For them, Revolutionary America looked nothing like the \"\"happy land blessed with every climate\"\" that Revolutionary republicans so successfully promoted. Instead, the War of Independence descended into a quagmire of anxiety, destruction, and distress at the hands of the American environment—a \"\"Diabolical Country,\"\" as one British soldier opined, \"\"which no Earthly Compensation can put me in Charity with.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55365682463094,"sku":"9781469680767","price":90.03,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_38130654_43bab982-7d30-4fcd-ad04-3f505ae92c25.jpg?v=1763731774","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781469680767-under-alien-skies","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}