Military Migration and State Formation: The British Military Community in Seventeenth-Century Sweden

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When the Swedish crown hired mercenaries in the British Isles, the soldiers usually were shipped directly to the battlefields and did not spend time in Sweden before starting a campaign. A majority of the mercenaries either died during their military service or returned to their native countries when released from military duty.  Most of them never traveled to Sweden or formed permanent ties to the Swedish kingdom.

Along with guidelines for defining an immigrant, an additional criterion for inclusion is that the immigrants had to be officers in the Swedish military because few substantial sources exist that deal with rank-and-file soldiers in Swedish service. The main sources for studying soldiers during the seventeenth century are the military rolls, which contain lists of names of every member of a given company for the purposes of paying the soldiers their salaries.

Mary Elizabeth Ailes

2002, 5.5"x 8.5", Cloth, index, 192 pp.

ISBN:  9780803210604

111-A1060