The Life and Diary of Lieut. Col. John Blackader: Of the Cameronian Regiment, Who Served in the Wars under King William and the Duke of Marlborough
"In strictness and propriety of moral conduct he certainly stands singularly prominent in the annals of military history." Those are the words of the author of this book, Andrew Crichton. Lieutenant Colonel John Blackader was an accomplished and successful soldier in both the Nine Years' War and War of the Spanish Succession, who retired with words of admiration from no less than John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough—arguably, along with Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, one of the two best generals in British history—but Blackader's fame is not derived from soldiering at all. If it was only as a soldier he was to be remembered, we would barely remember him at all. What we have here instead, is a story about a phenomenally spiritual man in circumstances we don't usually hear about: not a martyr sacrificing his life for his faith, nor a hero standing up for his religious beliefs in the face of powerful opposition, nor a member of the clergy dedicating his life to distributing the Good Word, but a soldier trying his very best to live a virtuous and spiritual life in the midst of all-out, continent-wide war. His phenomenal spirituality in the worst possible conditions for such, is the source of John Blackader's fame. The story of the wars and circumstances in which he was involved are herein combined by Mr. Crichton with the words of Mr. Blackader's own diary to draw a portrait of a Christian soldier doing his best to remain faithful to God while fighting a war.
Preparing old books for digital publication is a labor of love at Travelyn Publishing. We hold our digital versions of public domain books up against any others with no fear of the comparison. Our conversion work is meticulous, utilizing a process designed to eliminate errors, maximize reader enjoyment, and recreate as much as possible the atmosphere of the original book even as we are adding the navigation and formatting necessary for a good digital book. While remaining faithful to a writer's original words, and the spellings and usages of his era, we are not above correcting obvious mistakes. If the printer became distracted after placing an 'a' at the end of a line and then placed another 'a' at the beginning of the next line (they used to do this stuff by hand you know!), what sort of mindless robots would allow that careless error to be preserved for all eternity in the digital version, too? Not us. That's why we have the audacity to claim that our re-publications are often better than the originals.
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Preparing old books for digital publication is a labor of love at Travelyn Publishing. We hold our digital versions of public domain books up against any others with no fear of the comparison. Our conversion work is meticulous, utilizing a process designed to eliminate errors, maximize reader enjoyment, and recreate as much as possible the atmosphere of the original book even as we are adding the navigation and formatting necessary for a good digital book. While remaining faithful to a writer's original words, and the spellings and usages of his era, we are not above correcting obvious mistakes. If the printer became distracted after placing an 'a' at the end of a line and then placed another 'a' at the beginning of the next line (they used to do this stuff by hand you know!), what sort of mindless robots would allow that careless error to be preserved for all eternity in the digital version, too? Not us. That's why we have the audacity to claim that our re-publications are often better than the originals.
The Life and Diary of Lieut. Col. John Blackader: Of the Cameronian Regiment, Who Served in the Wars under King William and the Duke of Marlborough
"In strictness and propriety of moral conduct he certainly stands singularly prominent in the annals of military history." Those are the words of the author of this book, Andrew Crichton. Lieutenant Colonel John Blackader was an accomplished and successful soldier in both the Nine Years' War and War of the Spanish Succession, who retired with words of admiration from no less than John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough—arguably, along with Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, one of the two best generals in British history—but Blackader's fame is not derived from soldiering at all. If it was only as a soldier he was to be remembered, we would barely remember him at all. What we have here instead, is a story about a phenomenally spiritual man in circumstances we don't usually hear about: not a martyr sacrificing his life for his faith, nor a hero standing up for his religious beliefs in the face of powerful opposition, nor a member of the clergy dedicating his life to distributing the Good Word, but a soldier trying his very best to live a virtuous and spiritual life in the midst of all-out, continent-wide war. His phenomenal spirituality in the worst possible conditions for such, is the source of John Blackader's fame. The story of the wars and circumstances in which he was involved are herein combined by Mr. Crichton with the words of Mr. Blackader's own diary to draw a portrait of a Christian soldier doing his best to remain faithful to God while fighting a war.
Preparing old books for digital publication is a labor of love at Travelyn Publishing. We hold our digital versions of public domain books up against any others with no fear of the comparison. Our conversion work is meticulous, utilizing a process designed to eliminate errors, maximize reader enjoyment, and recreate as much as possible the atmosphere of the original book even as we are adding the navigation and formatting necessary for a good digital book. While remaining faithful to a writer's original words, and the spellings and usages of his era, we are not above correcting obvious mistakes. If the printer became distracted after placing an 'a' at the end of a line and then placed another 'a' at the beginning of the next line (they used to do this stuff by hand you know!), what sort of mindless robots would allow that careless error to be preserved for all eternity in the digital version, too? Not us. That's why we have the audacity to claim that our re-publications are often better than the originals.
Preparing old books for digital publication is a labor of love at Travelyn Publishing. We hold our digital versions of public domain books up against any others with no fear of the comparison. Our conversion work is meticulous, utilizing a process designed to eliminate errors, maximize reader enjoyment, and recreate as much as possible the atmosphere of the original book even as we are adding the navigation and formatting necessary for a good digital book. While remaining faithful to a writer's original words, and the spellings and usages of his era, we are not above correcting obvious mistakes. If the printer became distracted after placing an 'a' at the end of a line and then placed another 'a' at the beginning of the next line (they used to do this stuff by hand you know!), what sort of mindless robots would allow that careless error to be preserved for all eternity in the digital version, too? Not us. That's why we have the audacity to claim that our re-publications are often better than the originals.
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| BN ID: | 2940184625805 |
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| Publisher: | Travelyn Publishing |
| Publication date: | 09/22/2025 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 713 KB |
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