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

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

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