GLASGOW:
THOMAS MURRAY AND SON.
1862.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| Preface, | [3] |
| Introduction, | [5] |
| Second Royal North British Dragoons, or “Scots Greys,” | [13] |
| “The Guards.” Grenadiers—Coldstreams—Scots Fusiliers, | [41] |
| The First “Royal Scots,” | [78] |
| The Twenty-First Foot, or “Royal North British Fusiliers,” | [121] |
| The Twenty-Fifth Foot. “King’s Own Borderers,” or Edinburgh Regiment, | [145] |
| The Twenty-Sixth Foot, or “Cameronians,” | [169] |
| Life Guards. Seventh Hussars—Seventeenth Light Dragoons—Seventieth Foot, | [187] |
| The Seventy-Third Foot—“Perthshire,” | [191] |
| The Seventy-Fifth Foot—“Stirlingshire,” | [199] |
| The Ninetieth Foot, or “Perthshire Volunteers,” | [205] |
| The Ninety-First Foot—“Argyleshire,” | [212] |
| The Scots Brigade, or the Old Ninety-Fourth Foot, | [224] |
| The Ninety-Ninth Foot, or “Lanarkshire,” | [236] |
| The Old Highland Brigade, | [241] |
| The Forty-Second, or “Royal Highlanders”—“Black Watch,” | [250] |
| The Seventy-First, or “Glasgow Highland Light Infantry,” | [288] |
| The Seventy-Second, or “Duke of Albany’s Highlanders,” | [313] |
| The Seventy-Fourth Highlanders, | [330] |
| The Seventy-Eighth Highlanders, or “Ross-shire Buffs,” | [352] |
| The Seventy-Ninth, or “Cameron Highlanders,” | [380] |
| The Ninety-Second, or “Gordon Highlanders,” | [394] |
| The Ninety-Third, or “Sutherland Highlanders,” | [409] |
INDEX TO PLATES.
| Royal Arms, | [Frontispiece] |
| Scots Dragoon, | Fronting page [13] |
| Colours of the “Scots Greys,” | [33] |
| Balaklava, | [39] |
| “Scots Greys,” 1862, | [40] |
| Prince Albert, | [41] |
| Lord Clyde, | [45] |
| Napoleon, | [66] |
| Duke of Cambridge, | [74] |
| The “Guards’” Monument, | [77] |
| Gustavus Adolphus, | [82] |
| Prince de Conde, | [88] |
| Marshal Turrenne, | [90] |
| Duke de Schomberg, | [95] |
| St Sebastian, | [113] |
| The Twenty-first Royal North-British Fusiliers, | [121] |
| Blenheim, | [127] |
| Killiecrankie, | [147] |
| Ancient Badge of the Twenty-fifth, | [156] |
| Colours of the Twenty-fifth, 2 plates, | [168] |
| Marquis of Dalhousie, | [184] |
| Seringapatam, | [197] |
| Delhi, | [203] |
| Lord Lynedoch, | [205] |
| Lucknow, | [211] |
| Ancient Soldiers, | Fronting page [224] |
| Officer of Pikemen, | [232] |
| Old Highland Brigade, &c., | [241] |
| The Forty-second Royal Highlanders, | [250] |
| Sir Ralph Abercromby, | [273] |
| Sir John Moore, | [280] |
| Sebastopol, | [287] |
| The Seventy-first Glasgow Highland Light Infantry, | [300] |
| Waterloo, | [310] |
| The Seventy-second and Seventy-fourth Highlanders, | [329] |
| Duke of Wellington, | [336] |
| Wreck of the “Birkenhead,” | [346] |
| India, | [373] |
| Sir Henry Havelock, | [377] |
| Monument to the Seventy-eighth, | [379] |
| Presentation Plate to the Seventy-eighth, | [379] |
| Lochiel, | [381] |
| Duke of Richmond, | [394] |
| French Revolutionary War, | [407] |
| The Ninety-third Sutherland Highlanders, | [409] |
| Crimea, | [415] |
| Presentation of Crimean Medals, | [416] |
PREFACE.
In the present Work, the Author, without pretending to submit anything very startling or original, has endeavoured to gather from the records of the past such facts as may enable him, avoiding the tedium of detail, to present to the reader a brief and, it is hoped, at the same time, a comprehensive narrative of the origin and principal events in which our Scottish Regiments have so largely and honourably been distinguished.
It is wholly foreign to the purpose of the Author in any way to overlook the valorous achievements of the English and Irish Regiments in Her Majesty’s Service, which have alike contributed to build up the military renown of the British Army; he only trusts he shall receive that same charitable indulgence, in his present undertaking, which in like circumstances he, with every right-hearted Scot, should cordially extend to brethren of either a sister land or sister isle. It is in these pages, as a Scotsman, he ventures to give expression to the nation’s gratitude and honest pride—awards, in the name of friend and foe, the meed of praise justly due to the brave soldier who has fought his country’s battles in almost every land—ofttimes victoriously—at all times honourably.