Duke of Cumberland

Recruiting for the Duke of Cumberland’s Regiment: American Prisoners in the British Army

In Relieve Us of This Burthern: American Prisoners of War in the Revolutionary South, 1780-1782, Carl P. Borick details how Lord Montagu and his agents recruited from the American prisoners held at Charleston to restaff the Duke of Cumberland’s regiment, using a mixture of enticement, coercion and even forcible impressment. While Borick identifes only aContinueContinue reading “Recruiting for the Duke of Cumberland’s Regiment: American Prisoners in the British Army”