Excerpt from A Short History of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders); 42nd, 73rd, 1725-1907: To Which Is Added an Account of the Second Battalion in the South African War, 1899-1902 This short history is published with the approval of the officers commanding the 1st and 2nd Battalions of The Black Watch. The facts here collected have been compiled, for the most part, from the Regimental Records of the 1st and 2nd Battalions, and of the Perthshire Militia, from the official histories of the 42nd and 73rd, and from Stewarts 'Sketches of the Highlanders.' Permission has been given by Lady Tullibardine and Mr J. W. Fortescue to make use of many new facts concerning the regiment contained in 'The Military History of Perthshire' and in 'The History of the British Army': in the former case this applies especially to the account of the Militia Battalion and to the raising of the 4th and 5th Volunteer Battalions in 1859. Thanks are also due to the officers commanding the six Volunteer Battalions and 5th Royal Highlanders of Canada for information they were good enough to collect and forward to me. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.