CONTENTS

Previous
Frederick Watson
Preface v
1. The Formation of the Black Watch 1
2. Flanders and Fontenoy 8
3. The Black Watch at Ticonderoga 17
4. With Wolfe and Fraser’s Highlanders at Quebec 26
5. Red Indian Warfare 33
6. The American War of Independence 43
7. With the Highland Light Infantry at Seringapatam 55
8. The Winning of the Hackle 63
9. With Abercromby in Egypt 70
10. The Retreat on Corunna 79
11. The Camerons in the Peninsular 91
12. The Gordons at Quatre Bras 105
13. With Wellington at Waterloo 114
14. The Highland Brigade at the Alma 126
15. The ‘Thin Red Line’ at Balaclava 135
16. From Meerut to Cawnpore 142
17. With Sir Colin Campbell and the Sutherlands to Lucknow 158
18. With Wolseley and the Black Watch to Coomassie 178
19. With Roberts and the Seaforths in Afghanistan 187
20. Majuba Hill 204
21. The Highland Brigade at Tel-el-Kebir 212
22. From El-Teb to Omdurman 218
23. Chitral and Dargai 234
24. Outbreak of War in South Africa 241
25. The Highland Brigade at Magersfontein 255
26. Paardeberg and the Gordons at Ladysmith 264
27. With Sir Ian Hamilton to Pretoria 277
28. The Greatest War 288
Index 313

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1. The Camerons at Fuentes de OÑoro (p. 95) Frontispiece
2. A Highland Chief 4
3. The Black Watch at Ticonderoga 22
4. The Highland Light Infantry at Seringapatam 60
5. The Gordons at Quatre Bras 112
6. The Sutherland Highlanders at Lucknow 166
7. The Seaforths at Candahar 202
8. The Argyll and Sutherlands entering Boulogne, August 1914 294
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Clyx.com


Top of Page
Top of Page