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Wellington's Highland warriors : from the Black Watch Mutiny to the Battle of Waterloo, 1743-1815 / Stuart Reid ; foreword by Philip Haythornthwaite.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reid, Stuart, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain. Army--Scottish regiments--History--18th century.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain. Army--Scottish regiments--History--19th century.
- Great Britain--History, Military--1789-1820.
- Great Britain--History, Military--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Frontline Books, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Wellington's Highland Warriors' covers the early history of the British Army's Highland regiments, from the raising of the Black Watch in 1739 to the battle of Waterloo in 1815. Stuart Reid provides an entertaining and thoroughly original study of the circumstances in which the regiments were authorized and recruited, not just in the Highlands but all across Scotland, so that ""Highlanders and Scotchmen"" became synonymous. It also tells the story of how they acquitted themselves in almost every corner of the globe from the bogs of Ireland to the burning plains of India, and in the process ear
- Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; Foreword; Preface; Introduction - Wellington's Highlanders; Technical Notes; 1 - Brave Highland Men - A Prologue; 2 - The Black Watch and Mr Pitt's Army; 3 - The Highland War Begins: The Cameron Highlanders; 4 - High Jinks and Whisky: The Gordons; 5 - Mutiny: The Strathspey Fencibles; 6 - Castlebar Races: The Fencibles at War; 7 - The Tiger and the Elephant; 8 - The Glasgow Highlanders and the Corsican Ogre; 9 - Scotland Forever; Epilogue; Appendix 1 - The Beautiful Highland Regiments; Appendix 2 - The Gordons at Waterloo; Endnotes
- Archival SourcesIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781783830893
- 1783830891
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