The Story of the Highland Regiments

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PREFACE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I THE FORMATION OF THE BLACK WATCH

CHAPTER II FLANDERS AND FONTENOY -1745

CHAPTER III THE BLACK WATCH AT TICONDEROGA -1758

CHAPTER IV WITH WOLFE AND FRASER'S HIGHLANDERS AT QUEBEC -1759

CHAPTER V RED INDIAN AND HIGHLANDER (1760-1767)

CHAPTER VI THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (1775-1782).

CHAPTER VII WITH THE HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY TO SERINGAPATAM -1799

CHAPTER VIII HOW THE BLACK WATCH WON THE RED HACKLE -1795

CHAPTER IX WITH ABERCROMBY IN EGYPT -1801

CHAPTER X THE RETREAT ON CORUNNA (1808-1809)

CHAPTER XI WITH THE CAMERONS IN THE PENINSULAR (1810-1814)

CHAPTER XII THE GORDONS AT QUATRE BRAS ( June 16, 1815 )

CHAPTER XIII WITH WELLINGTON AT WATERLOO ( June 18, 1815 )

CHAPTER XIV THE HIGHLAND BRIGADE AT THE BATTLE OF ALMA ( September 20, 1854 )

CHAPTER XV THE 'THIN RED LINE' AT BALACLAVA ( October 25, 1854 )

CHAPTER XVI WITH HAVELOCK TO LUCKNOW

CHAPTER XVII WITH SIR COLIN CAMPBELL AND THE SUTHERLANDS TO LUCKNOW

CHAPTER XVIII WOLSELEY AND THE BLACK WATCH IN ASHANTI (1873-1874)

CHAPTER XIX WITH ROBERTS AND THE SEAFORTHS TO AFGHANISTAN (1878-1880)

CHAPTER XX MAJUBA HILL -1881

CHAPTER XXI WITH THE HIGHLAND BRIGADE AT TEL-EL-KEBIR -1882

CHAPTER XXII FROM EL-TEB TO OMDURMAN (1884-1898)

CHAPTER XXIII CHITRAL AND THE GORDONS AT DARGAI (1895-1898)

CHAPTER XXIV FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE BOER WAR TO THE BATTLE OF MODDER RIVER -1899

CHAPTER XXV WITH THE HIGHLAND BRIGADE AT MAGERSFONTEIN ( December 11, 1899 )

CHAPTER XXVI PAARDEBERG AND LADYSMITH

CHAPTER XXVII WITH SIR IAN HAMILTON TO PRETORIA -1900

CHAPTER XXVIII THE GREATEST WAR (1914- )

INDEX

Title: The Story of the Highland Regiments

Author: Frederick Watson

Language: English

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THE STORY OF THE HIGHLAND REGIMENTS

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Battle scene

The Camerons at Fuentes De Onoro.

THE STORY OF THE HIGHLAND REGIMENTS
BY FREDERICK WATSON
East and South my children scatter,
North and West the world they wander.
Yet they come back to me,
Come with their brave hearts beating,
Longing to die for me,
Me, the grey, old, weary mother,
Throned amid the Northern waters.
Lauchlan MacLean Watt.
PUBLISHED BY A. & C. BLACK, Ltd.
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1915
DEDICATED
TO
THE MEMORY OF MY BROTHER
CAPTAIN HENRY TRELSS WATSON
2ND BATT. KING’S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY
WHO FELL AT YPRES, MARCH 6, 1915
The profits accruing from the sale of this book
for the duration of the War
will be devoted to the Officers’ Families Fund.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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