S GOTLAND FOR.- EVER^ <^23^355> A GIFT-BOOK OF THE SCOTTISH REGI\fENT5 "With a preface, by Tlie EARL of RDSEBERY,KiG PUBLISHED FOriHEGLASGCW HERALD" gw2 BY HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON, NEW YORK. &D TORONTO PREFACE BY THE EARL OF ROSEBERY K.G., K.T. THERE could scarcely be a more opportune publication for Scotsmen than a record of the valour of their historical regiments. This war has revealed and developed the strong and undying soul which animates them, and maintains through generations and even centuries a corporate and jealous pride. Whether in the kilt or the trews, or ' on the beautiful grey horses ' admired by Napoleon, they appeal irresistibly even to the most pacific natures in Scotland, and that is half the secret of the unmatched recruiting returns from the ancient kingdom during the present war. United as clans, proudly conscious of the battles on their colours, holding their traditional reputation as a sacred trust, they are a brotherhood of honour on which the country confidently relies in peace and in war. The spirit, the name, and the tradition are wholly Scottish. But it must be remembered that the men are not all of that race. Many come from all parts '^ SCOTLAND FOR EVER give them the succession and the prestirre of those heroes who ^ have gone before. ^ ^ "'"'""" ways The'sc'f '^^^-^ '" ^" ^^ "^ 7"' """'^^' ^"'^ -d-nturous, with fewfe tel: J temptations atr''home to a mihtary career became permanently British. Anothe! famou 're" mosses, i he Covenanters in their t„rn i, i_ »ry or ' " "" ^^- pciWe ,„ Jemil. The details will be mven in .!.„ S.i«ly i, ''^ ™"- i, well when we f,. r ancestors "::trei7~""™-"-^conquering nobler enemies. This is PREFACE y not to say that the Prussian soldier is not, as regards valour, a brave combatant. But he is directed by men who have placed themselves outside the pale of humanity, and shares their responsibility. Let us hope that once more, and soon, it may be given to a Scottish regiment to storm, as in Aytoun's spirited verses, an island on the Rhine. I will indulge myself with only one significant extract; >t regards the Scots in Belgium during the Waterloo campaign. The natives admired the English but always returned to the Scots ' with, But the Scots' they are good and kind as well as brave ; they are the only soldiers who become members of the family in the houses in which they are billeted ; they even carry about the children, and do the domestic work.' The favourite proverbial form of compliment was Lions in the field and lambs in the house.' That .s exquisite praise. The unhappy Netherlands can now compare these Scottish soldiers with the wild beasts who have desolated their country and ravaged their homes. ° I am heartily grateful for this stimulating book. ROSEBERY. CONTENTS CHAPTER I PACK. Seventeenth Century Wars, 1634-1697 . , i CHAPTER H Campaigns in Flanders and Germany, 1691-1745 , , j. CHAPTER HI The Wars in Canada, America, and the West Indies, 1757-1809 30 CHAPTER IV Napoleon in Egypt, 1801-1807 . 54 CHAPITR V The Peninsular Campaigns, 1808-1814 . 72 CHAPTER VI Quatre Bras and Waterloo, 1815 104 CHAPTER VII The Crimean War, 1854 . 118 ^"' SCOTLAND FOR EVER CHAPTER VIII The Indian Mutiny, 1857-59 127 CHAPTER IX FBONTIER Campaigns in l>n,iA. and NAxmi Wa«s m Africa AND EgVPT, 1852-1898 '43 CHAPTER X South Africa, 1881-1901 165 ILLUSTRATIONS •SCOTLAND FOR EVER !' C,...c. or .,. S.o.s C.v,.. w„.».oo />„„,;„, •tflir thifaiMing iy Lajj liuikr. PRIVATE, ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS, .742 OFFICER, KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS, ,8.. PRIVATE, CAMERONIANS, ,8.5 THE BATTLE OF FONTENOV . Thh F.a»c„ ..„ ,„, a..,h, cov- FRONTING EACH OTHER OFFICER, ROYAL SCOTS GREYS, ,844 24 OFFICER, SCOTS GUARDS, 1830 . 24 OFFICER, ROYAL SCOTS, 1792 . 24 OFFICER, BLACK WATCH, 1835 . 40 OFFICER, SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS, 184, 40 PRIVATE, HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY, ,787 40 THE BATTLE OF ALEXANDRIA o. th. .,st D.v 0. March .8o, 56 .l/ler t.':tp^Mlr.s V. T. h ^, Lluthn-harg, j?..y. OFFICER, CAMERON HIGHLANDERS, i8aS 72 OFFICER, GORDON HIGHLANDERS, 1S54 . 72 OFFICER, ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS, ,85. SCOTLAND FOR EVER THE BATTLE OF WATFRrnn ,- 104 ALMA: 'Forward, 4JND I" •ffi" thi paMni h, Rilir, G'M, R.S.A. THE T„m RED LINE. ,3«o H.oh.a™.., „ Ba.ac.ava ^W /</ /W./,-,f i, Rtiirl GM. R.S.yl, "^^''"^ "'°B™r°'°' '^^^"^ ^•" •-- March „ Cast.., p.,v,ou, to t„.„ ^av.ko Enola™ por Ik„,a '3' ««.*/>, ,t, D,.l R„J. ,r li.rs„„ 4,1,, ,M. THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW 1 40 •^Mthltaintmsb, TkvaiJ. B^rl„r. KANDAHAR. T„. ,„„ „„„,,,„,„ ^^.„ ^^^ Gandi Mullah Sahibdad ^fi"- 'ti '44 HMng h, R. Cm, ir„Jt;iU. TEL-EL-KEBIR i6o •V"r tb, piunthg bj A. D, KinHk. ' ' ' ^/"r'i'Jrawi,gt,lf'.Si,„/,Cummns. ' ''' EDITOR'S NOTE Oct. thank, are due to the author, and publishers who have kindly permittol us to reprint many of the tale, and extracts in this volume-to Messrs. Virtue & Co. for the extracts from Her Maj,,,,/, Army, by Walter Hieh„rds, „„ p„ge^ 10, 109. and 111-12; to Jlr. Neil Munro for TU Silier Drum to Sir A T Q.ullcr-Coueh and Mr. John Murray for Ticmderoga; to Me,srs. Macmillan f„r the extracts from W. Forbes MitcheH's ReminiKencs of the Gre-U Mulinj l\ Parkman's Monl-alm and Wolfe. Lonl Itol^rts's 1\ riyone Year, ,n India. i.n,l G. L. Goffs Historical Record of the 91sl II ighla.ldcr., : t,. Messrs. Bhiekwo<Hl fur the extracts from Kinglakc's Invasion of ,he Crimea, and to them and Mr. J. D. Pinker ,or the extracts from G. W. Steevciis's Will, Kitchener lo Khartum and Iron, Capetown to Ladyrmith ; lo the De Li More Press for the extracts from Edward Almack's History the S„d of Dragoons ; to Me.s.srs. Ciissell for the extracts from Archibald Forbes's Tlu Black Watch, an.l D. C. Parry's V.C. and Britain s Roll Glory; of to Messrs. Chapman Si Hall for the extract from Captain n. T. Iliggins's Record the King's of Own Borderers ; to .Messrs. Wamc Co. for the extracts from & II. H. Clinton's Famous British Battles and The War in the Peninsula; to Mr. T. F. G. Contes for the extracts from his Life of Hector Macdonald to Sir. ; Eneas JIaekay for the extracts from J. Cron.b's The Highland Brigade to Messrs. ; Constable f,.r the extract from Viscount Wolsclcy's Story of a Soldier's Life; to Messrs. Hedderwick & Sons for the extract from Trooper A. S. Orr's Scottish Yeomanry in South Africa ; to Mes.srs. Smith Elder for the extracts from W. II. Fitehetfs Tales of the Itulian Mutiny, and Sir A. Conan Doyle's Great Boer War ; to Mr. Charles G. D. Roberts for the sonnet on Khartoum to .Mr. ; Theodore Gi«dridge Roberts and Dr. Wilfred Campbell for the poems of Dargai Ridge and Scotland: The World Mother. Mr. Archibald V rasden has bem so kind as to allow us he free use of 'The Thin Red Line' and 'Alma.' We have to thank Mrs. MaePhcrson of Corrimony for generously allowing us to reproduce Mr. Skcoch Cumming's South Af-ican picture; Sir WiUiam L.^ram, Bart., for Mr. Caton Woodvillc's picture xii SCOTLAND FOR EVER "" -^ i..ii.f or U..L.. ""'"-^ "-' yu^2^z^:: r™ ': v«lu„l>lc. ' "'"' ''"'"'"•••' "" '"-'t a»,i»tan.c Tl,. , son. ""-' "=- ^'™" * .... „. j„„„.,: ,. ;;,:::^ ;:^r::^::~ ^^^ arc s|.,cmlly inilcblcd to Jlis., June T Sl,«l,J„rt .n i ii t. m^£i^ i^ggig M i N 'mn CHAPTER 1 Seventeenth Century Wars io.'ii-io'.ir THE ROYAI. SCOTS The Story oj the Lothian Regiment Tbe lluynl Sfut.s takes pr- le of pljicc us the ulclt-st line legimcut hi liif llrilisii It is Army. rumoureil to be a lhn.ul ili-scciidiiTit iif the- iKKlypiunl i.f Ihc iincioMl kin(!i of Scotliiml, nnd, as some si.rt of Iriliulc to its iiiiiloiilikxl iililiqiiily, hin ihc ' received quuint ni.kiinme of I'onlliis PiUle's ItiHlyuiianl.' Soolti.h t'nir>ps, as renders of Huetttin Puncitid will reiiu-iiihcr, ucre to tic foiiiul li;;htiiit; gallantly, as soldiers of • fortune, under the Frei li II nr mi the Middle Ajies. Ahuut 1682, Daniel Defoe's And.ow Nrvporl, In Tke Memnira of a Caviilur. .,u:e >;pon u regiment of Seots rn ir Leip-i.-, liuhtinR will, the S\^edi^h aniiv of (;M,tavils Adolphns " njrainst the l.crmans : I met with ^rvlral (rentlenicnln the Kin;;'s army,' I'.e wiys, ' who spoke En,'- h very well, be--ides that there were three regiments of Seots in the an ly, the eolonels whereof 1 founil ivrrc extraorilinarily esteemed by the kuiR, iis the Lord Uea, Colonel Lnnisikjl, unil Sir John llcpbnni!' The companies known as " l!cpbnrn's Sei.ts Itrit-ade ' were eanipaij.oiiii|,' willi the Swedes for nine years j then, in l(«:l, after the death of Gustavos Adolphns, Hepburn went home to his own ecamlry. aiul presently raised fresh reeroils. transferred und his nlleRiancc to France.' For some fortv-five years tliis rej;!- ment remained in the service of the French. After Ihe liestoration it retnrned from its wanderincs, and, under its new c<ilonel. the Earl of Dumbarton, entered the British Army as 'Dumbarton's Recirnciit.' Later, it followed James II. into exile for '' a while, and, eonmianih'd by Lord Dundee, fought ag.iin r France, and ftKain afrainst tlie (Germans, From these gallant, indomitable companies of soldier-adventurers the Royal Scots regiment evolved.