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A narrative account traces the history and campaigns of Scotland's Highland regiments across roughly two centuries, following their formation, combat actions in Europe, North America, India, Africa, and frontier postings, and service in major nineteenth-century conflicts. The book combines regimental chronologies with eyewitness reports, anecdotal vignettes, and occasional verse to convey battlefield episodes, endurance, and sacrifice, while minimizing dates. Chapters spotlight notable engagements, skirmishes, and reforms, and the author frames the material for general and younger readers, emphasizing tradition, esprit de corps, and the regiments' role in imperial military operations.

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Title: The Story of the Highland Regiments

Author: Frederick Watson

Release date: September 13, 2018 [eBook #57897]

Language: English

Credits: E-text prepared by Brian Coe, David King, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org)

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THE STORY OF THE HIGHLAND REGIMENTS

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
NOVELS.
THE VOICE OF THE TURTLE.
SHALLOWS.
BOOKS FOR BOYS.
MUCKLE JOHN.
THE GHOST ROCK.
HISTORY.
THE BRAES OF BALQUHIDDER.
AGENTS
America The Macmillan Company
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Australasia The Oxford University Press
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Canada The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd.
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309 Bow Bazaar Street, Calcutta

The Camerons at Fuentes De Onoro.

THE STORY OF THE HIGHLAND REGIMENTS
BY FREDERICK WATSON
East and South my children scatter,
North and West the world they wander.
Yet they come back to me,
Come with their brave hearts beating,
Longing to die for me,
Me, the grey, old, weary mother,
Throned amid the Northern waters.
Lauchlan MacLean Watt.
PUBLISHED BY A. & C. BLACK, Ltd.
4, 5, & 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.
1915
DEDICATED
TO
THE MEMORY OF MY BROTHER
CAPTAIN HENRY TRELSS WATSON
2ND BATT. KING’S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY
WHO FELL AT YPRES, MARCH 6, 1915
The profits accruing from the sale of this book
for the duration of the War
will be devoted to the Officers’ Families Fund.