Verses on the Highland soldiers who fell at Quartre Bras and Waterloo - Wars > Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) - English ballads

Download files

Individual page:

(3) Verses on the Highland soldiers who fell at Quartre Bras and Waterloo

Set display mode to: Universal Viewer | Mirador | Large image | Transcription

Images and transcriptions on this page, including medium image downloads, may be used under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence unless otherwise stated.

(1) Verses on the Highland soldiers who fell at Quartre Bras and Waterloo

Permanent URL

https://digital.nls.uk/74891335

Description

First line reads: Among those hills which rise around. In one column. Signed at foot 'J. P.'.

Shelfmark

Crawford.EB.1533

Additional NLS resources:

Library catalogue record

More information

Form / genre:

Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides

Dates / events:

1815 [Date printed]
Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 [Date/event in text]
Quatre-Bras, Battle of, Quatre-Bras, Belgium, 1815 [Date/event in text]
1800-1900 [Date printed]

Places:

Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland (country) [Place printed]
Europe > Belgium > Wallonia > Brabant Wallon > Waterloo (inhabited place) [Place in text]

Subject / content:

Deaths
Soldiers
Battles
Ballads
Scottish

Person / organisation:

Great Britain. Army [Subject of text]

To find similar items, select the checkboxes next to the characteristics you are interested in, then select the 'Find similar' button.

English ballads

Description

Collection of 2,300 broadside ballads, mostly printed in England in the 19th century. Topics range from courtship, crime, disasters and emigration to fashion, theatre, politics, laments sports and old age. Includes ballads on Scotland and Ireland. Part of the Crawford Collections on deposit from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.

Attribution and copyright:

Reproduced with permission from materials on loan to the National Library of Scotland from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.

More information