"Famous By My Sword" Topic

I wrote a review about this book. You can read it here:

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Nice review – Have purchased a copy

I enjoyed this book a lot, would recommend it

Ian

I think you should read it again TDCT.

Your review mentions Montrose's final defeat at Kilsyth. In fact Kilsyth was a Royalist victory as the book correctly notes. That said the author conflates the Royalist Dragoons with their cavalry presumably in order to shore up his theory that the Royalst cavalry carried the day.

As General Baillie notes (again in the book) it was the Highlanders who broke his experienced regiments. In his own words "they leapt over the , and with downe heads fell on and broke these regiments".

Montrose's defeat at Philiphaugh is probably what you were thinking of but it was not the lack of regulars that caused it. Rather it was Montroses regular infantry who were massacred there.

The illustrations are great and the source material is handy but to be honest I found the rest of it to be fairly confused.

That said excellent production values and Hellion seem to be a publisher to watch.

I have a copy and would call it useful rather than wonderful on the whole I'd agree with Mr - I don't know him so its impolite to use his first name ! -
IMHO the best rendition of Montrose Campaigns is by Reid either his orgironal Montrose Campaigns or the updated Crown Covenant and Cromwell- which I've just finished and is a fine narrative of the Civil Wars from the Scottish perspective.