A Scot at War with Wellington: The Memoir of Captain James Stirling of the Black Watch

by Gareth Glover

Captain James Stirling's journals offer a firsthand account of the 42nd Regiment's actions during the Peninsular War.

For such a famous regiment as the 42nd Regiment of Foot (The Black Watch), the number of published memoirs is surprisingly low. The discovery of the three hand-written journals in the collection of the National Library of Scotland covering the period from August 1808, when the regiment left Gibraltar for Lisbon until...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399041517
• ISBN13: 9781399041515
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 288 Pages