Pursuit of Profit and Preferment in Colonial North America
William G Godfrey
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Pursuit of Profit and Preferment in Colonial North America

John Bradstreet's Quest

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How did an ambitious British army officer advance his career in mid - eighteenth - century North America? What was the nature of political opportunism in an imperial system encompassing an old world and a new? This study examines the career of an Anglo - Irish - Acadian army officer, treating in considerable detail the network of old-world connections and patrons which at times facilitated his advancement. John Bradstreet was born in Nova Scotia and died in New York. He was a major participant in colonial North American military events ranging from the capture of Louisbourg in 1745 to the Brit...