Caribbean Studies Seminar Series | Soldiers of Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture
Year: 2025
Type: other
Abstract: Online: 25 February 2025, 4:00PM - 5:30PM. Speakers: David Lambert (Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies). The West India Regiments were an anomalous presence in the British Army. Raised in the late eighteenth-century Caribbean in an act of military desperation, their rank-and-file were overwhelmingly men of African descent, initially enslaved. As such, the regiments held a unique but ambiguous place in the British Army and British Empire until their disbandment in 1927. Soldiers of Unc...
DOI: 10.58079/13bbu
Author: REGARDS CNRS
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6936749650
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