18th Century / Regimental Histories

Implacable enemies for hundreds of years, British and French regiments continued their struggles across the Low Countries and West Indies in the late 1700s. As death culled many in battle, weather and disease reaped an even heavier toll on life, graphically recorded by a British sergeant in previously unpublished letters.

In the early 1770s, the 33rd Foot acquired a reputation as the best-trained regiment in the British Army. This reputation would be tested beyond breaking point over the course of the American Revolutionary...

From the storming of the Bastille to the fall of the Napoleonic Empire, the Garde Nationale was a major player in Revolutionary and then Imperial France. However, historians have largely neglected it. Supported by a largely unpublished iconography, this book offers the first synthesis on the subject in English.

The story of the Légion de Damas from its roots in the upheavals of Revolutionary France to disbanding in Ukraine in 1798, through Dutch, British, and Russian service as well as alongside the Austrians.

Edinburgh is forever bound to The Royal Scots, the oldest in the British Army and now part of The Royal Regiment of Scotland. For a period in the early twentieth century, it also had a Highland battalion, the kilted 9th Royal Scots, which became affectionately known as the Dandy Ninth.

A detailed look at the Russian army during the Great Northern War utilising material previously unseen in the West.

A detailed and easily followed guidebook that tells the story of the Duke of Marlborough's victory at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704 and takes the reader across the Bavarian battlefield, rediscovering...