The empty sleeve : the story of the West India Regiments of the British Army / Brian Dyde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dyde, Brian, author.

Contributor:

Alexander Street Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Army--Colonial forces--West Indies, British--History.

Great Britain.

Soldiers, Black--West Indies, British--History.

Soldiers, Black.

Great Britain--History, Military.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

London : Hansib Publications, 1997.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

On 31 January 1927, the West India Regiment was disbanded after parading for the last time at Up Park Camp in Kingston, Jamaica. The ceremony marked the end of over 130 years of continuous service of West Indian troops in the British Army. Raised in 1795 from among the slave population of the West Indies, the West India Regiments proved invaluable to the British cause during the Napoleonic Wars. From a maximum of twelve in 1800 there were never less than two such regiments in existence until 1920, serving throughout the Caribbean and in all the British West African colonies. In tracing the fascinating, but at the same time sad and disturbing, history of these regiments, this book also examines the way in which Black soldiers, regardless of loyalty, devotion to duty and skill at arms, were never fully accepted in a white man's army.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed September 11, 2019).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-275) and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Dyde, Brian. Empty sleeve : the story of the West India Regiments of the British Army.

OCLC:

903505723

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