Download or read book Legends of the Black Watch, Or Forty-Second Highlanders (Classic Reprint) written by James Grant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-12 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Legends of the Black Watch, or Forty-Second Highlanders Woven up with an occasional legend or superstition gleaned among the mountains from whence its soldiers came, the warlike details and many of the names which occur in the following pages, belong to the military history of the country and of the brave Regiment whose title is given to our Book. It is generally acknowledged that but for the reten tion of the hilt in the British service, and for the high character of those regiments who wear it, the military our/me of Scotland had been long since for gotten in Europe, and her national existence had been as completely ignored during the Wars of Wellington as in those of Marlborough; nor in times more recent had the electric wire announced that, when the cloud of Russian horse came on at Balaclava and our allies ed, the Scots stood firm. 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."