ISBN10: 0767916891, ISBN13: 9780767916899, [publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)] Softcover Paperback. More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of Englands Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, traveling in groups of families and bringing with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters. Their cultural identity reflected acute individualism, dislike of aristocracy and a military tradition, and, over time, the Scots-Irish defined the attitudes and values of the military, of working class America, and even of the peculiarly populist form of American democracy itself. Born Fighting is the first book to chronicle the full journey of this remarkable cultural group, and the profound, but unrecognized, role it has played in the shaping of America. Written with the storytelling verve that has earned his works such acclaim as captivating . . . unforgettable (the Wall Street Journal on Lost Soliders), Scots-Irishman James Webb, Vietnam combat veteran and former Naval Secretary, traces the history of his people, beginning nearly two thousand years ago at Hadrians Wall, when the nation of Scotland was formed north of the Wall through ...
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ISBN10: 0767916891, ISBN13: 9780767916899, [publisher: Random House] Softcover pp. 384
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]

ISBN10: 0767916891, ISBN13: 9780767916899, [publisher: Crown] Softcover JAMES WEBB is the author of six novels, including Fields of Fire, Lost Soldiers,&#160and The Emperor&#8217s General. He is also a filmmaker (Rules of Engagement), a world-traveled, Emmy Award&#8211winning journalist, and has t.
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2005]
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