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  • Battles of the Scottish Lowlands

    by Stuart Reid ...
    Series series Battleground Britain
    This historical guide retells, in graphic detail, the story of nine of the most important battles to be fought in Scotland south of the Highland Line, stretching from Aberdeen to the Firth of Clyde. The battles range from medieval period to the time of Jacobite Rebellion. They show how weapons andequipment, tactics and strategy, and the make up of the armies themselves changed over the course of ... Read more

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  • All the King's Armies

    A Military History of the English Civil War 1642-1651

    by Stuart Reid ...
    On 23 September 1642 Prince Rupert's cavalry triumphed outside Worcester in the first major clash on the English Civil War. Almost precisely nine years later, on 3 September 1651, that war was won by Oliver Cromwell's famous Ironsides outside the same city and in part upon the same ground. Stuart Reid provides a detailed yet readable new military history – the first to be published for over twenty ... Read more

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  • Culloden, 1746

    Battlefield Guide: Third Edition

    by Stuart Reid ...
    A journey to the Highland battlefield where this landmark event in Scottish history took place, with numerous maps and illustrations.Culloden Moor is one of the most famous battles in British history and, for the Scots, the battle is pre-eminent, surpassing even Bannockburn. In this decisive and bloody encounter in 1746, the Duke of Cumberland's government army defeated the Jacobite rebels led by ... Read more

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  • Wellington's Highland Warriors

    From the Black Watch Mutiny to the Battle of Waterloo

    by Stuart Reid ...
    'Wellingtons Highland Warriors' covers the early history of the British Armys Highland regiments, from the raising of the Black Watch in 1739 to the battle of Waterloo in 1815. Stuart Reid provides an entertaining and thoroughly original study of the circumstances in which the regiments were authorized and recruited, not just in the Highlands but all across Scotland, so that Highlanders and ... Read more

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  • Wellington's History of the Peninsular War

    Battling Napoleon in Iberia 1808–1814

    by Stuart Reid ...
    An historic account of the Peninsula War written by the man leading forces against the French, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.Though pressed many times to write about his battles and campaigns, the Duke of Wellington always replied that people should refer to his published dispatches. Yet Wellington did, in effect, write a history of the Peninsular War in the form of four lengthy ... Read more

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  • Egypt 1801

    The End of Napoleon's Eastern Empire

    by Stuart Reid ...
    The first campaign medal awarded to British soldiers is reckoned to be that given to those men who fought at Waterloo in 1815, but a decade and a half earlier a group of regiments were awarded a unique badge – a figure of a Sphinx - to mark their service in Egypt in 1801. It was a fitting distinction, for the successful campaign was a remarkable one, fought far from home by a British army which ... Read more

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  • Battle of Killiecrankie, 1689

    The Last Act of the Killing Times

    by Stuart Reid ...
    The fifty-odd years of Scottish history dominated by the Jacobite Risings are amongst its most evocative and whilst the last battle, Culloden in 1746, is deservedly remembered as a national tragedy, the first battle on the braes of Killiecrankie was unquestionably the most dramatic.It was very much a Scottish battle. The later Jacobite risings would be launched against kings and governments in ... Read more

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  • Sheriffmuir 1715

    The Jacobite War in Scotland

    by Stuart Reid ...
    Sheriffmuir 1715 is the military history of a doomed Jacobite rising in Scotland, which enjoyed far more public support and arguably far more chance of success than Bonnie Prince Charlie's attempt 30 years later. Unlike the '45, the uprising which culminated in the brutal battle of Sheriffmuir was very much a Scottish affair, fought without either French troops or assistance, and unashamedly aimed ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Minden, 1759

    The Impossible Victory of the Seven Years War

    by Stuart Reid ...
    The fighting in Europe during the Seven Years War hung in the balance. After initial successes the Austro-French forces had been driven back across the Rhine. With the opposing sides reinforcing their armies, the campaign of 1759 was going to prove decisive.Britain and her German allies met the French at Minden in Germany. Due to a misunderstanding of orders the British infantry actually attacked ... Read more

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  • Crown, Covenant and Cromwell

    The Civil Wars in Scotland, 1639–1651

    by Stuart Reid ...
    Crown, Covenant and Cromwell is a groundbreaking military history of the Great Civil War or rather the last Anglo-Scottish War as it was fought in Scotland and by Scottish armies in England between 1639 and 1651. While the politics of the time are necessarily touched upon, it is above all the story of those armies and the men who marched in them under generals such as Alexander Leslie, the ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Plassey, 1757

    The Victory That Won an Empire

    by Stuart Reid ...
    Britain was rapidly emerging as the most powerful European nation, a position France long believed to be her own. Yet with France still commanding the largest continental army, Britain saw its best opportunities for expansion lay in the East. Yet, as Britains influence increased through its official trading arm, the East India Company, the ruler of Bengal, Nawab Siraj-ud-daulah, sought to drive ... Read more

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  • A Soldier of the Seventy-First

    From De la Plata to Waterloo, 1806–1815

    by Joseph Sinclair ...
    The authors sharp eye for the illuminating detail and the oddities of human behavior enabled him to present a picture of army life as graphic and revealing as any drawn by a private soldier during the Napoleonic Wars - Christopher HibbertThis remarkable memoir was first published in Edinburgh in 1819 and has withstood the test of time. One cannot improve on Sir Charles Omans description of the ... Read more

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