1859MEMOIR OF JOHN CAMERON,FASSIEFERNGORDON HIGHLANDERNAPOLEONIC WARWATERLOO

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1859MEMOIR OF JOHN CAMERON,FASSIEFERNGORDON HIGHLANDERNAPOLEONIC WARWATERLOO:
$304.91

MEMOIR OF

COLONEL JOHN CAMERON,FASSIEFERN, K.T.S.,

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL OF THE GORDON HIGHLANDERS, OR 92D REGIMENT OF FOOT

BY ARCHIBALD CLERK.

GLASGOW

1859

3rd EDITION (1st Published edition)

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BOOK DESCRIPTION:rebacked 4to (28.5cm). [xii] 112 pp. Frontis portrait and two Plates (tinted).original publisher\'s cloth.

CONDITION:VERY GOOD. The original cloth has been skilfully restored using vintage cloth and the original endpapers have been preserved with a strong cloth hinge which matches the original beautifully. Some foxing internally, generally light. A few smudges. An excellent copy of the first published edition of this work. There were two, very small, private printings in 1858 (not published for sale to the public). This 3rd edition appears to have been a very modest run too as there are no other copies in commerce and no UK holdings of this 1859 Thomas Murray imprint recorded on COPAC

John Cameron (1771–1815) of Fassiefern, Argyllshire, was a cousin of the Camerons of Lochiel and a celebrated Scottish military commander.

Cameron served as Colonel of the Gordon Highlanders and was killed in action at the Battle of Quatre-Bras. The Prince Regent created his father a baronet in 1817 in recognition of Cameron\'s distinguished military service.

During the Waterloo Campaign, Cameron\'s 92nd Foot alongside the 42nd Highlanders, 1st Royals, and 44th East Essex, formed General Pack\'s 9th Brigade of Sir Thomas Picton\'s 5th Division, and were among the first troops to march out of Brussels at daybreak on 16 June 1815. On that day, when leading his regiment in an attack on an enemy stronghold, on the road to Charleroi near the village of Quatre-Bras, Cameron was mortally wounded. He was buried there at the side of the road to Ghent road, during the great storm of the 17th by his foster-brother and faithful attendant, Private Ewen McMillan, (who had followed his fortunes from the first day he joined the Army), James Gordon, Regimental-Paymaster and a close personal friend, and a few soldiers of the regiment whose wounds prevented them engaging in combat on that day. The book transcribes the message from Wellington\'s Despatches (see photo) in which he lamented the falling of Cameron and also Col. Sir H. Ellis (of the 23rd Regiment). At the request of his family, Cameron\'s remains were disinterred soon afterwards, brought home in a man-of-war and, in the presence of a gathering of three thousand highlanders from the then still populous district of Lochaber, were laid to rest in Kilmallie churchyard where an obelisk inscribed with a quotation by Sir Walter Scott marks the site of his grave (illustrated - see below).

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