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Victoria's Scottish Lion - The Life of Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde

By: Spellmount Limited

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Spellmount Limited)

Last Stocked on 5/10/2022

Product Info

Title
Victoria's Scottish Lion - The Life of Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde
Publisher
Category
Author
Adrian Greenwood
Publish Year
2015
Pages
496
Dimensions
6.5x9.75x1.5"
NKG Part #
2147933874
Type
Hardcover

Description

From humble Glasgow beginnings, Colin Campbell rose to become Scotland's finest general and a favorite 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.