- Abercrombie, General Sir James, 17, 20, 22, 25
- Abercromby, General Sir Ralph, 66, 72, 74
- Aboukir, 71, 213
- Abraham, Plains of, 28, 31
- Abu Hamid, 226
- Acre, 71
- Aisne, battle of the, 295, 297, 298
- Alexandria, 73, 78
- Alison, General Sir Archibald, 44, 180, 182, 184, 214
- Allan, Captain, 284
- Alliance, La Belle, 123
- Alma, battle of the, 133.
- See Chapter XIV.
- Almeida, fortress of, 93
- Alost, 66
- Alumbagh, the, 167
- Amherst, General, 25, 28, 31
- Amiens, Peace of, 79
- Angus, Lance-Corporal William, 309
- Anson, General, 146
- Arabi Bey, 212, 216
- Arcot, 57
- Assaye, 61
- Atbara, River, 229, 231
- Austerlitz, 82
- Austrian Succession, War of, 10
- Badajoz, 95
- Baines, Major-General, 111
- Baird, Sir David, 84, 88
- Baird, Major-General, 59
- Baker, General, 195, 196, 198, 222
- Baker, Sir Samuel, 218
- Balaclava, 137
- Bareilly, 175, 176
- Barnard, General, 146
- Becke, Captain, 115
- Benson, Major, 256
- Beresford, General, 91, 99, 101
- Bergen-op-Zoom, 16
- Berlin Treaty, 189
- Bidassoa, River, 98
- Birkenhead, the, 205, 206
- Bloemfontein, 268, 269, 274, 277, 278
- Blücher, Marshal, 10, 107, 112, 113
- Boquet, Colonel Henry, 38, 40
- Botha, General, 244, 284, 307
- Boulogne, 80, 293
- Bradford, Colonel, 297
- Brandy Wine River, 52
- Branston, Major, 165
- Brest, 81
- Bridley, Corporal John, 308
- Brodie, Captain, 299
- Brooke, Lieutenant, 299
- Bruce, Captain, 259
- Buchan, John, 310
- Bugeaud, Marshal, 115
- Buller, General Sir Redvers, 180, 264, 266, 268, 271, 273, 284
- Burchill, Colonel, 305
- Burgos, battle of, 97
- Burgoyne, General, 53, 54
- Burgoyne, Captain, 174
- Burleigh, Master of, 294
- Burrows, General, 200
- Busaco, 92
- Cadogan, Colonel, 93, 98
- Calcutta, Black Hole of, 57
- Cambridge, Duke of, 172
- Cameron, Major-General Alan, 92
- Cameron, Colonel John, 108, 109, 111, 176
- Campbell, Sir Colin, 44, 97, 127-134;
- Canning, Lord, 172
- Cape Colony (added to British Empire), 205
- Carnatic, Nawab of the, 61
- Castile, fortress of, 95
- Cato Street Conspiracy, 126
- Cavagnari, Major, 193, 194, 196, 202
- Cawnpore, massacre of, 150;
- Cecil, Lord, 231
- Cetewayo, 207
- Chamberlain, Sir Neville, 189
- Champlain, Samuel de, 20
- Charasiah, 194;
- battle won, 196
- Charles Edward, Prince, 3, 9, 182
- Charlestown, 54
- Cherokee Indians, 34, 35, 36, 38
- Chieveley Camp, 266
- Chitral, see Chapter XXIII.
- Churchill, Winston, 280
- Ciudad Rodrigo, 95
- Clinton, General Sir Henry, 101
- Clive, Robert (Lord), 56, 142
- Colenso, battle of, 266
- Colley, General Sir George, 208, 209, 210
- Colville, General, 95, 276
- Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur, 251, 252, 257, 272, 274, 299
- Coomassie, 178, 180, 183, 185
- Cornwallis, General (Lord), 52, 54, 57
- Corunna, 87
- Cotton, Sidney, 144
- Craufurd, General, 87
- Crimean War, the, see Chapters XIV. and XV.
- Cronje, General, 251, 252, 269
- Culloden, 3, 16
- Cumberland, William Augustus, Duke of, 3, 11, 16
- Dardanelles, 73, 307
- Dargai, see Chapter XXIII.
- Delagoa Bay, 282
- Delhi, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149
- Dettingen, 13, 27
- De Wet, General, 244, 278, 282, 285, 307
- Dick-Cunyngham, Colonel, 197, 272
- Dingaan, 206
- Dingwall, Lieutenant, 239
- Dongola Expedition, the, 228
- Duff, Grant-, Colonel, 296
- Dundas, General, 67
- Dundas, Henry (Viscount Melville), 72
- Dundonald, Lord, 273
- Dupleix, Joseph, 142
- Duquesne, Fort, 24, 25
- Earle, Major-General, 225, 226
- East India Company, 56, 142
- Elandslaagte, 248
- Elba, Isle of, 104, 105
- El-Teb, 222
- Ewart, Colonel, 165
- Farquhar, Lieutenant, 60
- Festubert, battle of, 310
- Findlater, Piper, 239
- Fitchett, W. H., 86, 102, 124, 146
- Fontenoy, 11, 22
- Forbes, Archibald, 67
- Forbes, Brigadier-General John, 24
- Fortescue, Hon. John, 59, 68, 168
- Foudroyant, the, 77
- Fraser, Colonel, 310
- Fraser, General Simon, 53
- French, General Sir John, 248, 269, 281, 284, 295, 299, 300
- Fuentes de Oñoro, 91, 92
- Gardyne, Colonel, 239
- Gatacre, General, 229, 230, 264, 265, 266
- George III., 45
- Gibson-Craig, Sir Archibald, 298
- Givenchy, 303, 309
- Gladstone, William E., 225
- Goodall, Captain, 60
- Gordon, General Charles, 219, 220, 224, 226
- Gordon, Captain, 284
- Graham, General, 97
- Graham, Sir Gerald, 222, 225
- Graham, Captain John, 276, 309
- Grant, General Hope, 171
- Grant, Lieutenant, 22
- Grant, Major James, 24, 47
- Granville, Lord, 225
- Graspan, 251
- Green, Colonel, 226
- Grouchy, Marshal, 114, 115, 120
- Haig, General Sir Douglas, 299, 300
- Hamilton, General Sir Ian, 209, 271, 272, 278, 281, 307
- Hamilton, Colonel, 154
- Hamley, General, 216, 217
- Hardinge, Captain, 88, 89
- Hastings, Warren, 57, 61
- Havelock, General Sir Henry, 150-167
- Hay, Lord Charles, 12
- Hicks, Colonel, 219
- Hills, General, 200
- Honours, Battle—Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 177;
- Hooge, 309
- Hope, Brigadier Adrian, death of, 176
- Hope, General Sir John, 84, 88
- Hougoumont, 117, 119
- Howe, General, 50, 51, 52, 53
- Hunter, General Sir Archibald, 229
- Hutchinson, General, 78
- Importation Act, 46
- Independence, Declaration of, 47
- Indian Mutiny, see Chapters XVI. and XVII.
- Inglis, General Sir John, 159
- Isandhlwana, 207
- Jacobite Rebellion, 9
- Jameson, Dr., 242
- Jardyne, Colonel, 239
- Jenkins’ Ear, battle of, 9
- Jones, Brigadier-General John, 176
- Joubert, General, 207, 244
- Kabul, 188, 192, 193, 194;
- Kandahar, 189, 200
- Kassassin, 213
- Kavanagh, 164
- Kenny, Drummer, 299
- Khalifa, city of the, 228
- Khartoum, 225
- Khyber Pass, 189
- Kimberley, 250, 264, 268, 269, 276
- Kinglake, Alexander, 129, 131, 140
- Kipling, Rudyard, 192
- Kirbekan, 225
- Kitchener of Khartoum, Horatio Herbert (Lord), 213, 220, 227, 231, 245, 267, 286, 292
- Knyphausen, General, 52
- Koffi Calcalli, 179, 181, 183
- Kruger, Paul, 207, 211, 242, 244, 246, 280, 282, 284
- La Bassée, 303
- Ladysmith, 250, 264, 266, 268, 270, 271, 272, 273
- Laing’s Nek, 207
- Lawrence, Sir Henry, 147, 149;
- death of, 152
- Liége, 292
- Ligny, battle of, 112
- Lockhart, Sir William, 237, 240
- Loudon, Fort, 36, 38
- Louis XV., 9
- Louis XVIII., 104, 106
- Louisburg, 24, 27
- Louvain, 289
- Lovat, Lord, 34
- Low, General Sir Robert, 235, 236
- Lucknow, capture of, 175
- Lusitania, wreck of the, 289
- Lynn, Private John, 308
- Lytton, Lord, 188, 189
- M’Bean, Colonel, 210
- Macbean, Major, 239
- M’Carthy, Sir Charles, 179
- M’Donald, Donald, 49
- Macdonald, Flora, 50
- Macdonald, General Sir Hector, 232, 274, 285
- Macdonald, John, 220
- Maclean, Lieutenant-Colonel, 304
- Macpherson, Major, of Cluny, 181
- Macpherson, General, 198
- Maestricht, 16, 112
- Mafeking, 250, 264
- Magersfontein, 254, 261, 262, 266
- Mahdi (see Mohammed Ahmed), 219, 221, 227
- Mahmoud, 229, 230
- Mahon, Lord, 53
- Maiwand, 200
- Majuba Hill, 205, 207, 208, 209
- Malakand Pass, 236
- Marne, battle of the, 295, 297, 298
- Martello towers, 80
- Massena, General, 92, 93, 94
- Mathias, Colonel, 239
- Maubeuge, 124
- Mayflower, the, 10
- Meerut, 144, 145
- Meiklejohn, Captain, 248, 249
- Methuen, Lord, 250, 251, 254, 255, 262, 263, 266
- Middelburg, 284
- Milner, Sir Alfred (Lord), 243
- Modder River, battle of, 251, 254
- Mohammed Ahmed (see also Mahdi), 219
- Moira, Lord, 66
- Mons, 124, 293, 294
- Montcalm, Marquis de, 18, 21, 29, 30
- Montgomery, Colonel, 34, 35, 38
- Mont St. Jean, 116, 117
- Moore, General Sir John, 73, 84, 87, 88, 89
- Morgan, Colonel, 53
- Müffling, von, General, 115
- Munro, Captain John, 13
- Munro, Sir Robert (of Fowlis), 14, 15
- Murray, General, 31
- Murray, Major, 50
- Mysore, 58
- Mysore, Tiger of (see Tippoo Sahib), 57
- Nana Sahib, 149, 153, 167
- Namur, 292
- Napier, Sir William, 85, 89, 96, 116
- Napoleon I., Emperor of the French, 57, 70, 72, 80, 81, 85;
- Natal, 247, 250
- Nelson, Horatio (Lord), 71, 81
- Neuve Chapelle, 295, 303, 304
- Newbolt, Sir Henry, 194
- Ney, Marshal, 109, 110, 114, 122
- Nicholas, Grand Duke, 307
- Nicholson, John, 65, 144, 147;
- death of, 148
- Nicholson’s Nek, battle of, 250
- Nieuport, 66
- Nightingale, Florence, 136
- Nile, battle of the, 71
- Nimeguen, 66
- Nivelle, River, 99
- Noyes, Alfred, 288
- Ohio Indians, 41
- Ontario, Fort, 18
- Orleans, Isle of, 27
- Orthez, 99
- Outram, General Sir James, 151, 159, 162, 166, 175
- Pack, Sir Denis, 100, 101, 119, 120
- Paris, Treaty of, 41
- Paton, Sergeant John, V.C., 166
- Peace Congress (at Vienna), 105
- Peiwar Kotal, 192, 202
- Persian Campaign, 151
- Picton, General Sir Thomas, 95, 101, 118
- Pieter’s Hill, 273
- Pitt, William, the Elder, 3, 7, 9, 47
- Pitt, William, the Younger, 71, 82
- Pittsburg, 25
- Plassey, battle of, 57
- Pondicherry, 56
- Pretoria, 206, 242, 278, 282
- Prideaux, General, 25
- Primrose, General, 200
- Prinsloo, capture of, 286
- Ptolemies, palace of the, 75
- Pyrenees, campaign of the, 98
- Quatre Bras, battle of, 90, 103, 111, 117
- Raglan, Lord, 133
- Reform Bill, the, 126
- Roberts, Frederick Sleigh (Lord), 32, 144, 168;
- Rorke’s Drift, 207
- Ross, Sergeant-Major, 310
- Russell, Dr., 173
- St. Eloi, 303
- St. Helena, 125
- Salamanca, 96
- Salisbury, Lord, 188
- San Michael, 96, 97
- San Sebastian, 98
- Saratoga, Springs of, 53;
- Heights of, 54
- Saxe, Marshal, 11, 12, 14, 16
- Schiel, Colonel, 248, 249
- Scott, Sir Walter, 156, 291, 302
- Scottish, Liverpool, 309
- Seaforth, Earl of, 44
- Secundrabagh, 163, 164, 165
- Seringapatam, 58, 60
- Sevastopol, 133;
- Shere Ali, 187, 188;
- death of, 192
- Sherpur, 199
- Skrine, J. Huntley, 304
- Smith, Sir Sydney, 71
- Smith-Dorrien, General Sir H., 283, 298
- Soignes, Forest of, 110, 117
- Soult, Marshal, 84, 85, 99, 100, 103
- Spion Kop, 268
- Stamp Act, 46
- Stanley, Sir Henry, 180, 181, 184
- Steevens, G. W., 229, 233
- Stewart, Colonel, 75
- Stewart, General, of Garth, 5, 36
- Stormberg, 264, 265
- Strange, Major Bland, 235
- Suakin, 222
- Sullivan, General, 52
- Symons, General Penn, 246
- Tait, Lieutenant F. G., 259, 260, 274, 275
- Talana Hill, 247
- Tamai, battle of, 222
- Tel-el-Kebir, 213;
- battle won, 216
- Theresa, Maria, 10
- Ticonderoga, 20, 25
- Tippoo Sahib, 57, 58, 60
- Torres Vedras, 92
- Toulon, 81
- Toulouse, battle of, 99, 100, 103
- Towse, Captain, 279, 280
- Trafalgar, battle of, 80, 81
- Trevelyan, G. O., 143, 150, 154
- Tugela River, 266, 268
- Ulm, 82
- Ulundi, battle of, 207
- Umra Khan, 235, 236
- Uxbridge, Duke of, 113
- Vergennes, French Ambassador, 41
- Victoria, Queen, 127, 172, 231, 243
- Vimiera, 127
- Vittoria, 97
- Wade, Marshal, 11
- Walcheren Expedition, the, 127
- Walpole, General, 175, 176
- Warsaw, 307
- Washington, George, 24, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53
- Washington, Fort, 50
- Waterloo, battle of, 90, 103, 124
- Wauchope, General, 254, 256, 258, 259
- Wellesley, Arthur (Duke of Wellington), 58, 83
- Wellington, Duke of, 91, 96, 97, 100, 107, 109, 111;
- Wheeler, Major-General Sir Hugh, 150, 169
- White, General Sir George, 178, 195, 246, 270, 273
- William Henry, Fort, 18
- Wilson, Sir Charles, 225
- Wilson, Sir Robert, 74
- Wilson, Private, 299
- Wolfe, General, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
- Wolseley, Garnet Joseph (Lord), 139, 165, 178, 180, 183, 185, 212, 213, 216, 225
- Wood, General Sir Evelyn, 180, 208, 211
- Yakub Khan, 193
- York, Duke of, 66
- Yorktown, 54
- Younger, Captain, death of, 284
- Ypres, 121, 291, 299, 300, 304
- Yusef Pasha, 219
About This Book
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.