The Highland Brigade its Battles & its Heroes by James Cromb PB NEW FREEPOST UK

Naval and Military Press

HIGHLAND BRIGADE Its Battles and its Heroes\nPublished in association with The National Army Museum London, this is a well-illustrated and popular Victorian account of the daring deeds of the Highland Brigade in the Crimea, India, South Africa and the Sudan \u2013 for those who like their history red in tooth and claw.\nPublished in 1886, the golden age of the British Empire in its Victorian heyday, this is a red-blooded patriotic account of the daring deeds of one of Scotland\u2019s proudest military names \u2013 the Highland Brigade \u2013 and its doings in the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny. The Brigade fought in all the major engagements of the Crimea \u2013 including the battles of Alma (\u2018the thin red line\u2019) and Balaclava. Then, under its famous commander, Sir Colin Campbell, it was transferred from the snowy trenches around Sebastapol to the steamy heat of India at the height of the Mutiny. The Brigade recaptured Cawnpore from the mutineers, before marching to the .