A Scot at War with Wellington: The Memoir of Captain James Stirling of the Black Watch

Captain James Stirling’s journals offer a firsthand account of the 42nd Regiment’s actions during the Peninsular War.

For such a famous regiment as the 42nd Regiment of Foot (The Black Watch), the number of published memoirs is surprisingly low. The discovery of the three hand—written journals in the collection of the National Library of Scotland covering the period from August 1808, when the regiment left Gibraltar for Lisbon until the end of 1813, are therefore of significant importance in...