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HISTORY
OF THE
SCOTTISH REGIMENTS
IN THE
BRITISH ARMY.
BY
ARCH. K. MURRAY, ESQ.,
MAJOR OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH LANARKSHIRE VOLUNTEER GUARDS.
Published by Request of his Brother Officers.
GLASGOW:
THOMAS MURRAY AND SON.
1862.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| Preface, | 3 |
| Introduction, | 5 |
| Second Royal North British Dragoons, or “Scots Greys,” | 13 |
| “The Guards.” Grenadiers—Coldstreams—Scots Fusiliers, | 41 |
| The First “Royal Scots,” | 78 |
| The Twenty-First Foot, or “Royal North British Fusiliers,” | 121 |
| The Twenty-Fifth Foot. “King’s Own Borderers,” or Edinburgh Regiment, | 145 |
| The Twenty-Sixth Foot, or “Cameronians,” | 169 |
| Life Guards. Seventh Hussars—Seventeenth Light Dragoons—Seventieth Foot, | 187 |
| The Seventy-Third Foot—“Perthshire,” | 191 |
| The Seventy-Fifth Foot—“Stirlingshire,” | 199 |
| ... |