Wellington's Highland Warriors (Hardback)
From the Black Watch Mutiny to the Battle of Waterloo
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781848325579
Published: 15th February 2010
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'Stuart Reid tells a great tale, deeply researched and full of fascinating characters.' Tim Newark, author of Highlander
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 authorised and recruited, not just in the Highlands but all across Scotland, and how they acquitted themselves in every corner of the Empire, earning a reputation that is second to none in the process.
Each chapter follows the experiences of one particular regiment and uses extensive use of contemporary correspondence and memoirs to let those involved tell their own tale. The tale is a fascinating one, revealing the different expectations and experiences of Highland soldiers, stories of bitter feuds as rival chieftains and highland proprietors battled each other for recruits. The recruits were more than capable of giving as good as they got – demanding and receiving legally binding concessions from their landlords-turned-recruiters and then, like George Gordon of Cabrach, striding forth 'in high dress with his sword by his side to announce his new profession' in a calculated display of swank and swagger quite incomprehensible to his English counterparts.
Stuart Reid was born in Aberdeen in 1954 and has served with the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. His previous works on military history include Like Hungry Wolves, and The Secret War for Texas; a study of one of his ancestors' surprising role as a British agent in the Texan. He is currently working on a full-length military history of the last Anglo-Scots War 1639–1651.
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Recruitment of the Scottish Highland regiments has been seen as blind obedience by traditional regimental historians, and as coercion by later authors. This work treads a middle ground in its examination of the circumstances of recruitment and feuds between rival chieftains. After an introduction on the place of the Highland regiments in Scottish military history, each chapter follows the experiences of one particular regiment, drawing on memoirs and correspondence of those involved.
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About Stuart Reid
Stuart Reid was born in Aberdeen in 1954 into a family with a tradition of service in the Army stretching back through the Battle of Mons to Culloden and beyond. He is the author of numerous military history publications and has written extensively upon Scottish military history during the seventeenth century Civil War and the Jacobite period.
About Philip Haythornthwaite
Philip Haythornthwaite is one of the most distinguished and prolific writers on the military history of the Napoleonic era. He has long been established as an authority on the major battles of the time, in particular those fought in the Iberian peninsula, and he has made a special study of the armies and the soldiers who confronted each other across Europe during 15 years of almost continuous warfare. His many previous books include: The Peninsular War: The Complete Companion to the Iberian Campaigns 1807-14, The Armies of Wellington and Waterloo Men: The Experience of Battle, 16-18 June 1815.