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Author : John Buchan
Publisher : London : Nelson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The History of the Royal Scots Fusiliers (1678-1918) written by John Buchan and published by London : Nelson. This book was released on 1925 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Buchan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The History of the Royal Scots Fusiliers (1678-1918) written by John Buchan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Buchan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845742881
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Royal Scots Fusiliers written by John Buchan and published by . This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first ten years of its existence the regiment was on the Scottish establishment, but with the abdication of James II and the arrival of William (and Mary) the RSF came over to the English establishment as a Fusilier regiment (it had been equipped with 'fusils' instead of matchlocks), first known as The Scots Fusiliers Regiment of Foot, changed around 1713 to The Royal North British Fusiliers and when, in 1751, the regiments of the line were numbered it became the 21st (Royal North British) Fusiliers Regiment of Foot. This was its title till 1877 when it became the 21st (Royal Scots Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot, and finally, in 1881, The Royal Scots Fusiliers. Most regimental histories cover the 1914-18 War in one or more separate volumes, but here that conflict takes up the final third or so of the book in which Buchan devotes one chapter to each year of the war and, at the end of the chapter, lists in alphabetical order the names of the officers who died in that year, with date but not place (theatre) of death. As there were nine battalions (1, 2, 1/4, 1/5, 6, 7, 8, 11 and 12) which between them served on the Western Front, in Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine and Macedonia, this doesn't leave too much room for detail. But this lack is redressed by some fine, descriptive writing which provides the reader with a clear picture of the regiment's part in that war. Four VCs were won and the dead numbered 5,600. It is the same with the pre-1914 history which makes for easy and absorbing reading. In its early days the regiment fought against the Jacobite uprisings of 1715 and 1745, and was in the centre of Cumberland's first line at Culloden which put an end to the Highland rebellion. In the American War of Independence the regiment was part of Burgoyne's force compelled to surrender at Saratoga. In 1814 the regiment led the way in the capture of Washington. It fought at the Alma and Inkerman in the Crimea, at Ulundi in the Zulu War and in the S African War won its first VC at Colenso. In an appendix all the Colonels of the regiment are listed and the COs of all the battalions.
Author : James Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Historical Record and Regimental Memoir of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, Formerly Known as the 21st Royal North British Fusiliers written by James Clark and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Fl 1885 Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781363213566
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (135 download)
Download or read book HISTORICAL RECORD & REGIMENTAL written by James Fl 1885 Clark and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Clark
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781346677149
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (771 download)
Download or read book Historical Record and Regimental Memoir of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, Formerly Known as the 21st Royal North British Fusiliers. Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1678 and Its Subsequent Services Until June 1885 written by James Clark and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Trevor Royle
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780572522
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book The Royal Highland Fusiliers written by Trevor Royle and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Royal Highland Fusiliers came into being in 1959 as a result of the amalgamation of two regiments, both of which had strong connections with Glasgow and the west of Scotland: The Royal Scots Fusiliers, founded in 1678 by Charles Erskine, fifth Earl of Mar; and The Highland Light Infantry, or HLI, created in 1881 as a result of the amalgamation of the 71st Highlanders and the 74th Highlanders. Two distinctive infantry traditions can be found in the names of these regiments, which have helped to form the line infantry regiments of the British Army. Fusiliers were armed with the flintlock fusil instead of the more common matchlock musket, and light infantry came into being during the Napoleonic Wars to provide the army with a corps of skirmishing sharpshooters similar to Austrian and German Jäger troops. Amongst those who have served as fusiliers or light infantrymen are Hugh Trenchard, who became Air Chief Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Winston Churchill and David Niven, who joined the HLI from Sandhurst in the inter-war years. All these traditions and personalities went into the making of a regiment whose name lives on in the 2nd battalion of The Royal Regiment of Scotland, which was formed in 2006 as a result of the restructuring of the infantry regiments of the British Army.
Author : Arthur S. White
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 178150539X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (815 download)
Download or read book A Bibliography of Regimental Histories of the British Army written by Arthur S. White and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the most valuable books in the armoury of the serious student of British Military history. It is a new and revised edition of Arthur White's much sought-after bibliography of regimental, battalion and other histories of all regiments and Corps that have ever existed in the British Army. This new edition includes an enlarged addendum to that given in the 1988 reprint. It is, quite simply, indispensible.
Author : James Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781843422402
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (224 download)
Download or read book Historical Record and Regimental Memoir written by James Clark and published by . This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise regimental history is prefaced bty half a dozen handsome colour plates showing the regiment s colours and uniforms. Raised in 1678 under Charles II, the Royal Scots saw their first action against their fellow Scots at the battle of Bothwell Bridge. Under William III theyt fought the French at the battles of Walcourt, Steenkirk and Linden. In the War of the Spanish Succession under the Duke of Marlbrough they took part in the victories of Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, and Malplaquet. Aftyer the Treaty of Utrecht ended the war, they helped put down the 1715 Jacobite rebellion at the battle of Sherrifmuir. In 1743, they were again fighting the French at Dettingen - the last battle in which a reigning British king (George II) took part. They later fought in the battle of Fontenoy, in which France defeated the British. In 1745 they were hastily recalled from Flanders to put down Prince Charles Edward Stuart s rebellion, which they helped crush in April 1746 at the battle of Culloden. They were engaged in the American war of Independence, and subsequently fought the French in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean., before returning to America where they took part in the burning of Washington in the War of 1814. After garrison duty in India and Ireland, the Fusiliers took part in the Crimean War, and were present at the battles of the Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and the siege of Sebastopol. In 1879 the 2nd Battalion helped defeat the Zulus at the battle of Ulundi.
Author : James Clark (of the Royal Scots fusiliers.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Historical record and regimental memoir of the Royal Scots fusiliers written by James Clark (of the Royal Scots fusiliers.) and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Herbert Stewart
Publisher : Department of National Defence, Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Service of British Regiments in Canada and North America written by Charles Herbert Stewart and published by Department of National Defence, Library. This book was released on 1964 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graham Maddocks
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 0850525799
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Montauban written by Graham Maddocks and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1998-01-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montauban was the southernmost of the Somme villages attacked by the British Army on 1 July, 1916, and it was where there was the greatest success. This new book in the series takes the reader over ground where Captain Nevill kicked a football on going over the top, where the Somme cameramen took some of their most evocative footage and where Pals battalions engaged in a triumphant first major engagement.
Author : W. Mitchinson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137451610
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book The Territorial Force at War, 1914-16 written by W. Mitchinson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Mitchinson analyses the role and performance of the Territorial Force during the first two years of World War I. The study looks at the way the force was staffed and commanded, its relationship with the Regular Army and the War Office, and how most of its 1st Line divisions managed to retain and promote their local identities.
Author : Spiers Edward M. Spiers
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748654011
Total Pages : 857 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Military History of Scotland written by Spiers Edward M. Spiers and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scottish soldier has been at war for over 2000 years. Until now, no reference work has attempted to examine this vast heritage of warfare.A Military History of Scotland offers readers an unparalleled insight into the evolution of the Scottish military tradition. This wide-ranging and extensively illustrated volume traces the military history of Scotland from pre-history to the recent conflict in Afghanistan. Edited by three leading military historians, and featuring contributions from thirty scholars, it explores the role of warfare in the emergence of a Scottish kingdom, the forging of a Scottish-British military identity, and the participation of Scots in Britain's imperial and world wars. Eschewing a narrow definition of military history, it investigates the cultural and physical dimensions of Scotland's military past such as Scottish military dress and music, the role of the Scottish soldier in art and literature, Scotland's fortifications and battlefield archaeology, and Scotland's military memorials and museum collections.
Author : Dr Martin Samuels
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135238421
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Command or Control? written by Dr Martin Samuels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comparative study of the fighting systems of the British and German armies in The Great War. Taking issue with revisionist historians, Samuels argues that German success in battle can be explained by their superior tactical philosophy. The book provides a fascinating insight into the development of infantry tactics at a seminal point in the history of warfare.
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Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
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Author : Linda Maynard
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526146134
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Brothers in the Great War written by Linda Maynard and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Siblings are our longest lasting relationships. Narratives of the Great War abound with the war stories of brothers and sisters. Their emotional experiences span the novelty of departing for war or taking up war work, the turmoil of facing combat, the effort to provide ongoing support for family members, the ever-present anxiety for soldier-brothers, the depth of sibling grief and the multifarious ways surviving siblings sought to preserve the memory of their fallen brothers. This social and cultural history places siblinghood at the heart of our understanding of the war generation and how they balanced conflicting obligations to the nation, the military and their families. Drawing on a range of material, Brothers in the Great War, reveals how sibling bonds sustained fighting men and presents a novel insight into twentieth-century familial life.
