A meticulous chronicle of the Cumberland Regiment of Foot, tracing its lineage from its founding in 1702 through nearly a century and a half of imperial conflict. Cannon documents the regiment's path through the War of Spanish Succession, the Jacobite rebellions, the American Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars, rendering each campaign with the precision of a military scribe and the reverence of one who understands that regiments carry memory. This is not merely a list of battles but an institutional portrait: how men were recruited, how officers rose, how the regiment earned its honors and bore its losses. For military historians, genealogists, and anyone drawn to the machinery of empire, the book offers a window into the soldiers who built the British military tradition one campaign at a time. Its mid-19th century perspective also reveals how the Victorian era understood its martial past, constructing narratives of glory and sacrifice that still shape how we read history.
