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British and German Deserters, Dischargees, and POW's Who May Have Remained in Canada and the USA, 1774-1783. Part One and Two

Millennium File-Dependency Database1

Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America, Part Three

Scots-Irish: The Scot in North Britain, North Ireland and North America, Vol. 2

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