A01=Robert Rea
Author_Robert Rea
Category=DNBH
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Product details
- ISBN 9780817352424
- Weight: 309g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jun 2005
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book is about the flamboyant military career of a colonist loyal to the British crown before the Revolution. An engaging biography [and] a colourful tale...Robert Farmar, a son of New Jersey, used his position among that colony's elite to secure a commission as a captain in the British Army during the War of Jenkins' Ear and King George's War, serving in the unsuccessful assaults at Cartegena, Cuba, and Panama and then in the disaster at Fontenoy in Flanders and in the reversals at Rocoux and Laffeldt...During the Seven Years' War he participated in the capture of Havana.
