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Queen Victorias Highlanders Stuart Reid

Queen Victorias Highlanders By Stuart Reid

Queen Victorias Highlanders by Stuart Reid


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Summary

As the British Empire dominated every corner of the globe, Queen Victoria's Highlanders served in a variety of campaigns from the Indian subcontinent to Africa. This title studies their organization, histories, and evolution of uniforms. It covers each of the famous regiments - including the Black Watch, the Gordons, the Argylls, the Camerons.

Queen Victorias Highlanders Summary

Queen Victorias Highlanders by Stuart Reid

This book is not only a tribute to the proud Highlander regiments who have served with distinction for over two centuries but will also be an insightful study of the period in which they made their name. As the British Empire dominated every corner of the globe, Queen Victoria's Highlanders served in a variety of campaigns from the Indian subcontinent to Africa. This title will study their organization, histories, and evolution of uniforms. Each of the famous regiments - including the Black Watch, the Gordons, the Argylls, the Camerons - will be covered and the full glory of their romantic, tartan uniforms revealed.

About Stuart Reid

Stuart Reid has worked as a librarian and a professional soldier and his main focus of interest lies in the 18th and 19th centuries. This interest stems from having ancestors who served in the British Army and the East India Company and who fought at Culloden, Bunker Hill and even in the Texas Revolution. Previous works for Osprey include titles about King George's Army 1740-93 and the British Redcoat 1740-1815. Gerry Embleton has been a leading illustrator and researcher of historical costume since the 1970s, and has illustrated and written Osprey titles on a wide range of subjects over more than 20 years. He is an internationally respected authority on 15th and 18th century costumes in particular. He lives in Switzerland, where since 1988 he has also become well known for designing and creating life-size historical figures for museums.

Table of Contents

The Scottish regiments post-Waterloo: dramatic increase in public reputation restoration of the kilt (previously forbidden on political grounds since Jacobite rebellion) to unkilted units Chronology of campaigns - e.g. South Africa, Canada, Crimea, Indian Mutiny, Persia, North-west Frontier, Afghanistan Unit organization and evolution throughout the century, culminating in Cardwell reforms of 1880s and granting of formal title 'Highlanders' Uniform evolution throughout the century, with increasing introduction of romantic 'clan' distinctions

Additional information

GOR002140718
9781846032233
1846032237
Queen Victorias Highlanders by Stuart Reid
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2007-10-04
48
N/A
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