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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
64 & 66 Fifth Avenue, New York
Australasia The Oxford University Press
205 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Canada The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd.
St. Martins House, 70 Bond Street, Toronto
India Macmillan & Company, Ltd.
Macmillan Building, Bombay
309 Bow Bazaar Street, Calcutta
Battle scene
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. KINGS 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.
PREFACE
It is a perplexing thing when the making of history is often terrible, sometimes tragic, but hardly ever tedious, that the reading of history should be considered uniformly grey. In compiling the present book I shrank from the word HistoryI altered it to Story. It is the same thing, but it does not sound so depressing.
The Story of the Highland Regiments is not merely a narrative of regimental gallantryit is also the story of our Empire for nearly two hundred years, the story of strange lands and peoples, of heroism and endurance, of the open sea and the frontier. It is even more than thatit is the story of self-sacrifice, of courage, of patriotism.
Long ago, when my father related to me how, as a little boy, he had watched the Highlanders march into Edinburgh after the Crimean War, I determined to secure a book that would tell me, in simple words, without any dates whatever, about the Thin Red Line at Balaclava, the relief of Lucknow, and the charge of the Greys. It was just because no such book existed that I was encouraged to write a narrative history that would cover, no matter how slightly, the entire period.
Whatever may be the faults of this book there are pictures, and there are not many dates. I have also, where I could, allowed the actual combatants or eye-witnesses to tell their story in their own way, and on occasions I have inserted verses that have either won popularity or deserve to do so.
It is also my hope that, despite the simplicity of treatment, this story of the campaigns in which the Highland regiments took their part, will interest not only young people, but, for the sentiment of all things Scottish, their elders too.
In some chapters minor campaigns may appear to receive an undue attention, and greater wars, such as the Peninsular, to be treated in outline. The reason for this is obvious. This record must follow in the footsteps of the Highland regiments, and the greater the campaign the less accentuated are individual achievements. For this reason, too, I have not attempted to treat the present War in any detail, for no detail is so far to hand, and in the vast forces raised since August 1914 the Highland regiments have passed into armies, and cannot be treated as single battalions. But already one thing calls for no chronicler. Never since those old days when the clans first fought beneath the British flag has the imperishable star of the Highland regimentswhether of the Old Army or the New, Colonial or Territorialgleamed more steadily throughout the long night of War. In answer to the last and greatest summons of the Fiery Cross, the tramp of marching feet came sounding from the farthest outposts of the Empire.
Of the books that have provided me with much of my working material I must acknowledge as the basis of this volume Brownes History of the Highlands, vol. iv., Crombs The Highland Brigade, Archibald Forbes The Black Watch, the various regimental records, and for their respective campaignsMacleans Highlanders in America, Napiers War in the Peninsular, Dr. Fitchetts Wellingtons Men and The Tale of the Great Mutiny, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyles The Great Boer War. For the chapter on Afghanistan I have drawn upon Miss Brooke-Hunts Biography of Lord Roberts, and for the last chapter I have to thank the proprietors of the Scotsman for permission to quote some extracts from their files. I should also like to express my indebtedness to many other writers, whose books I have named where possible in the text.
There are those whose personal assistance has saved me much labour. In particular are my thanks due to my wife, who has collected much material and revised the proof sheets.
FREDERICK WATSON.
September 1915.
CONTENTS
Preface
1. The Formation of the Black Watch
2. Flanders and Fontenoy
3. The Black Watch at Ticonderoga
4. With Wolfe and Frasers Highlanders at Quebec
5. Red Indian Warfare
6. The American War of Independence
7. With the Highland Light Infantry at Seringapatam
8. The Winning of the Hackle
9. With Abercromby in Egypt
10. The Retreat on Corunna
11. The Camerons in the Peninsular
12. The Gordons at Quatre Bras
13. With Wellington at Waterloo
14. The Highland Brigade at the Alma
15. The Thin Red Line at Balaclava
16. From Meerut to Cawnpore
17. With Sir Colin Campbell and the Sutherlands to Lucknow
18. With Wolseley and the Black Watch to Coomassie
19. With Roberts and the Seaforths in Afghanistan
20. Majuba Hill
21. The Highland Brigade at Tel-el-Kebir
22. From El-Teb to Omdurman
23. Chitral and Dargai
24. Outbreak of War in South Africa
25. The Highland Brigade at Magersfontein
26. Paardeberg and the Gordons at Ladysmith
27. With Sir Ian Hamilton to Pretoria
28. The Greatest War
Index
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1. The Camerons at Fuentes de Ooro (p. 95)
2. A Highland Chief
3. The Black Watch at Ticonderoga
4. The Highland Light Infantry at Seringapatam
5. The Gordons at Quatre Bras
6. The Sutherland Highlanders at Lucknow
7. The Seaforths at Candahar
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