A meticulous 19th-century chronicle of the Seventy-Second Regiment (Duke of Albany's Own) spanning seventy years of imperial service from 1778 to 1848. Richard Cannon, the official Army historian, documents the regiment's transformation through the American Revolutionary War, the long campaigns in India, and subsequent colonial engagements across two continents. This is not a narrative of heroes but a institutional record: battle rolls, officer lists, campaign sequences, and the slow accretion of honors and casualties that defined a regiment's identity in the British Army. For military historians and genealogists, it offers a rare window into the mechanics of imperial warfare and the men who served. For readers drawn to the raw material of empire, it provides an invaluable primary source, written in the formal prose of its era, where the extraordinary violence of colonial conflict is rendered through the steady cataloging of actions, sieges, and marches.
