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Victoria's Scottish Lion

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Military service over an unprecedented fifty-five years took Field Marshal Colin Campbell from the battlefields of the Iberian Peninsula to the plains of India, via the West Indies, Nova Scotia, China, Java, the Balkans and Russia. Wounded six times - the first time at 20, the last when 65 - he... Voir plus

Military service over an unprecedented fifty-five years took Field Marshal Colin Campbell from the battlefields of the Iberian Peninsula to the plains of India, via the West Indies, Nova Scotia, China, Java, the Balkans and Russia. Wounded six times - the first time at 20, the last when 65 - he always led from the front, ever ready to ride the whirlwind and direct the storm. There wasn't a great power which he did not stand beside as an ally, or confront as a foe. He was in command at the most decorated battle in British history, and it was he who reconquered a subcontinent with an army Wellington would have thought sufficient for a reconnaissance-in-force. But Campbell's story is also a very personal one, the struggle of the son of a Glaswegian cabinetmaker who climbed all the way to the House of Lords. This Scottish statesman deserves to never be forgotten.

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