Our British Heritage – Volume III: Fight For Independence and Freedom , the latest work author-historian Merlene Hutto Byars , takes the readers on an epic expedition back in time as it traces the Scotch-Irish, the Welsh and many other European ancestries of modern America --- and explains why the author’s modern-day relatives are eccentric, feisty and independent and remarkably haughty.

The product of an extensive scholarly spadework, this volume vividly captures the story behind modern America’s heritage, as it chronicles the odyssey of the Scotch-Irish, the Welsh, and other people from the British Isles who fled to North America to evade the English oppression. Readers will discover that their emigration to America was based on a complex, multifactor and pleury-facetted inter-relationship between people of different origins, and religious convictions beginning long before 1292 when King Edward I of England tried to gain control of Scotland.

This sterling work also describes the racial makeup of Scotland and shows that by itself, it was a complex issue of those coming from Ulster, Ireland (mostly English and Scottish people), and those who had come from other parts of Europe such as Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium and others. Another fascinating aspect of this volume is its in-depth study of multiple European tribes.

A fascinating read that brims with scholarly insight, Our British Heritage – Volume III represents another towering achievement by the author.