Black Watch

Black Watch
Author: John Parker
Publisher: Headline
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2013-02-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1472202635

The Black Watch is one of the finest fighting forces in the world and has been engaged in virtually every worldwide conflict for the last three centuries. Named after the dark tartan of the soldiers' kilts, it is the oldest Highland regiment. As part of the British army, their first battle abroad was in Flanders in 1745 but the regiment soon moved to North America to fight the French, and then shared the capture of Montreal, the Windward Islands and Martinique. The American War of Independence saw the regiment once again in America, fighting horrific battles and eventually storming Fort Washington in 1776. Since then the regiment has held its own from the Napoleonic Wars to the Indian mutiny to Iraq. The Black Watch is the UK's most decorated regiment, combining the proud history and tradition of an organisation that has been soldiering for over 250 years.

Scottish Military Disasters

Scottish Military Disasters
Author: Paul Cowan
Publisher: Neil Wilson Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

A compilation of Scotland's failures on the battlefields of the world from Mons Graupius to Korea.

Sons of the Mountains

Sons of the Mountains
Author: Ian McCulloch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2006
Genre: Highlands (Scotland)
ISBN: 9781896941493

An informative history of early Highland regiments of the British army in North America. It collects essays on Highland weapons, uniforms, equipment, bagpipes and specialist soldiers, with a biographical register of various officers that served in the three regiments, including regimental muster rolls and returns.

Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750

Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750
Author: Victoria Henshaw
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2014-06-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1472514890

The wholesale assimilation of Scots into the British Army is largely associated with the recruitment of Highlanders during and after the Seven Years War. This important new study demonstrates that the assimilation of Lowland and Highland Scots into the British Army was a salient feature of its history in the first half of the 18th century and was already well advanced by the outbreak of the Seven Years War. Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750 analyses the wider policing functions of the British Army, the role of Scotland's militia and the development of Scotland's military roads and institutions to provide a fuller understanding of the purpose and complexity of Scotland's military organisation and presence in Scotland in the turbulent decades between the Glorious Revolution and the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie, which has been too often simplified as an army of occupation for the suppression of Jacobitism. Instead, Victoria Henshaw reveals the complexities and difficulties experienced by Scottish soldiers of all ranks in the British Army as nationality, loyalty and prejudice clouded Scottish desires to use military service to defend the Glorious Revolution and the Union of 1707.

The Black Watch at Ticonderoga

The Black Watch at Ticonderoga
Author: Frederick B Richards
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781016614009

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