The Lowland Scots Regiments
Author : Sir Herbert Maxwell
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Sir Herbert Maxwell
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Paul Cowan
Publisher : Neil Wilson Publishing Ltd
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 33,16 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN :
A compilation of Scotland's failures on the battlefields of the world from Mons Graupius to Korea.
Author : Don Troiani
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 32,61 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780811705202
In the world of historical painting, Don Troiani stands alone, universally acclaimed for the accuracy, drama, and sensitivity of his depictions of America's past. His Civil War paintings and limited edition prints hang in the finest collections in the country and are noted by collectors from around the world. Now, in "Don Troiani's Regiments and Uniforms of the Civil War", the artist turns his brush to one of the most colourful and captivating aspects of Civil War history: the individual units that earned their reputations on the battlefield and the distinctive uniforms they wore. In addition to 130 paintings of battle scenes and individual figures, the book also includes more than 250 full-colour photographs of the uniforms the soldiers wore and the accoutrements they carried. Supporting the illustrations is text by two of the leading military artefact experts. Taken together, it makes for one of the most comprehensive books on Civil War uniforms ever undertaken.
Author : Frank Adam
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Clans
ISBN : 0806304480
Given by Eugene Edge III.
Author : Patrick J. R. Mileham
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 1988
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Arthur S. White
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 178150539X
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 : Steve Murdoch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 49,22 MB
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9004474307
This volume examines the impact of military activity upon Scotland's national identity as the country underwent a fundamental transition through domestic centralisation at the turn of the seventeenth century, integration into the United Kingdom in 1707, and as a partner in Britain's global empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is divided into three thematic sections that examine the evolution of Scottish military identity over the early modern period, how the Highland region moved from a relationship of hostility to the Lowland political authorities to the central element in eighteenth and ninteenth century Scottish soldiering, and, finally, how aspects of Scotland's civilian society interrelated with her soldiers.
Author : Herbert Maxwell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 32,57 MB
Release : 2016-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781333931278
Excerpt from The Lowland Scots Regiments: Their Origin, Character and Services Previous to the Great War of 1914; Edited for the Association of Lowland Scots These observations may appear to have little or no connection with the history of the Scottish regiments; nevertheless, ethnology is an obstinate agent, and racial character is more enduring than the hills. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Spiers Edward M. Spiers
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 42,91 MB
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0748654011
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 : John G. Gibson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 26,96 MB
Release : 1998-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 0773568905
The bagpipe is one of the cultural icons of Scottish highlanders, but in the twentieth century traditional Scottish Gaelic piping has all but disappeared. Few recordings were ever made of traditional pipe music and there are almost no Gaelic-speaking pipers of the old school left. Recording an important aspect of Gaelic culture before it disappears, John Gibson chronicles the decline of traditional Highland Gaelic bagpiping - and Gaelic culture as a whole - and provides examples of traditional bagpipe music that have survived in the New World. Pulling together what is known of eighteenth-century West Highland piping and pipers and relating this to the effects of changing social conditions on traditional Scottish Gaelic piping since the suppression of the last Jacobite rebellion, Gibson presents a new interpretation of the decline of Gaelic piping and a new view of Gaelic society prior to the Highland diaspora. Refuting widely accepted opinions that after Culloden pipes and pipers were effectively banned in Scotland by the Disarming Act (1746), Gibson reveals that traditional dance bagpiping continued at least to the mid-nineteenth century. He argues that the dramatic depopulation of the Highlands in the nineteenth century was one of the main reasons for the decline of piping. Following the path of Scottish emigrants, Gibson traces the history of bagpiping in the New World and uncovers examples of late eighteenth-century traditional bagpiping and dance in Gaelic Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He argues that these anachronistic cultural forms provide a vital link to the vanished folk music and culture of the Scottish highlanders. This definitive study throws light on the ways pipers and piping contributed to social integration in the days of the clan system and on the decline in Scottish Gaelic culture following the abolition of clans. It also illuminates the cultural problems faced by all ethnic minorities assimilated into unitary multinational societies.