Victoria's Scottish Lion
Subtitle: The Life of Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde
Publisher: The History Press
Published: Sep 15, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780750956857
Description: From humble Glasgow beginnings, Colin Campbell rose to become Scotland's finest general and a favourite of Queen Victoria. In his fifty-year career he fought through the Peninsula, the Crimea, China and India, and still found time to contain a slave revolt, a Chartist revolution and Ireland's Tithe War. Through a combination of personal courage, compassionate leadership and genius for military strategy he became an idol for the men who served under him. This undisputed hero, whose memory has grown faint beside celebrated warriors of the Victorian age, was a soldier ahead of his time--the first working-class field marshal, with strong humanitarian leanings and an instinct for harnessing the power of the press. In the first major biography of Campbell since 1880 his career is radically reinterpreted and the life of this very private man is revealed. -- Inside jacket flap.
Notes: Source title: Victoria's Scottish Lion: The Life of Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde