The history of the Black Watch : The Seven Years War in Europe, the French and Indian War, Colonial American frontier and the Caribbean, the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, the Ashanti War and the Nile Expedition, 1729-1888 / Archibald Forbes

Author: Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900.

Imprint:LaVergne, TN : Leonaur, an imprint of Oakpast Ltd., c.2010.

Description229 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Note:First published under the title: the black watch: the record of an Historic Regiment.

Note:The genesis of the regiment 1729-40 -- "Lochaber no more!" 1743 -- Fontenoy - the baptism of fire 1745 -- Home and continental service 1745-50 -- Service in North America 1756 -- Ticonderoga 1758 -- Martinique and Guadaloupe 1759 -- North America 1759 -- Martinique once again 1762 -- Conquest of the Havannah 1762 -- Fort Pitt and the backwoods 1762-1767 -- Home service 1767-1776 -- The War of Independence 1776-1782 -- America and home -- Flanders 1794-95 -- West Indies and Minorca 1795-1800 -- Alexandria 1801 -- Home service 1801-1805 -- Gibraltar 1805-1808 -- The retreat and Battle of Coruna 1809 -- Home service and Walcheren -- Wellington's Peninsular Campaigns 1810-1814 -- Quatre Bras and Waterloo -- The Crimean War -- The Indian Mutiny -- The Ashanti Campaign and the Nile Expedition -- Some pets of the regiment.

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