Great Britain -- History, Military
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Dicken-Statham Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MA.00268
Abstract
The Dicken-Statham Family Papers contain papers related to four generations of one British family, spanning their participation in historical events during the last decades of East India Company rule in India through life in England in the 1980s. Materials in the collection include official documents pertaining to service in the East India Company and during World War I; manuscript diaries; correspondence; photographs, professional materials, and genealogical charts. There are approximately...
Dates:
1828-2014
George A. Plimpton (AC 1876) Collection of French and Indian War Items
Collection
Identifier: MA.00195
Abstract
Original and reproduction maps, portraits, drawings, autograph letters, broadsides, newspaper clippings, muster rolls, receipts and a variety of other documents documenting the history of the French and Indian War. The collection particularly focusses on British forces and the campaigns directed by General Jeffery Amherst, Commander-in-Chief of the troops in North America (1758-1763), which culminated with the capture of French Canada in 1763.
Dates:
1670-1934 ; Majority of material found within 1730-1815