FREDERICK WATSON.

September 1915.

CONTENTS

Preface[v]
1. The Formation of the Black Watch[1]
2. Flanders and Fontenoy[8]
3. The Black Watch at Ticonderoga[17]
4. With Wolfe and Fraser’s Highlanders at Quebec[26]
5. Red Indian Warfare[33]
6. The American War of Independence[43]
7. With the Highland Light Infantry at Seringapatam[55]
8. The Winning of the Hackle[63]
9. With Abercromby in Egypt[70]
10. The Retreat on Corunna[79]
11. The Camerons in the Peninsular[91]
12. The Gordons at Quatre Bras[105]
13. With Wellington at Waterloo[114]
14. The Highland Brigade at the Alma[126]
15. The ‘Thin Red Line’ at Balaclava[135]
16. From Meerut to Cawnpore[142]
17. With Sir Colin Campbell and the Sutherlands to Lucknow[158]
18. With Wolseley and the Black Watch to Coomassie[178]
19. With Roberts and the Seaforths in Afghanistan[187]
20. Majuba Hill[204]
21. The Highland Brigade at Tel-el-Kebir[212]
22. From El-Teb to Omdurman[218]
23. Chitral and Dargai[234]
24. Outbreak of War in South Africa[241]
25. The Highland Brigade at Magersfontein[255]
26. Paardeberg and the Gordons at Ladysmith[264]
27. With Sir Ian Hamilton to Pretoria[277]
28. The Greatest War[288]
Index[313]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1. The Camerons at Fuentes de Oñoro (p. 95)[Frontispiece]
2. A Highland Chief[4]
3. The Black Watch at Ticonderoga[22]
4. The Highland Light Infantry at Seringapatam[60]
5. The Gordons at Quatre Bras[112]
6. The Sutherland Highlanders at Lucknow[166]
7. The Seaforths at Candahar[202]
8. The Argyll and Sutherlands entering Boulogne, August 1914[294]

CHAPTER I
THE FORMATION OF THE BLACK WATCH

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