Dangerous Service

John Grants eye-witness accounts and anecdotes of military life on campaign and in garrison during the French and Indian War provide fascinating and invaluable insights. Not only does he describe candidly the physical conditions of the fighting and the strange environments encountered, but we learn first-hand of the Highland soldiers behaviour and his emotions before and after combat, his will and ability to fight, and, most of all, his proud resilience and perseverance in adversity. The Black Watchs exploits in the Americas during Britains Great War for Empire were a critical factor in changing the image of Highlanders in British society in the latter half of the 18th century from Jacobite rebels to Imperial heroes. Here in Grants memoirs we find a veteran of Britains first American Army whose career straddled that remarkable transformation. Proud of his family, his countrymen and his regiment, it was John Grants shining young career while on a dangerous service as a Black Watch infantry officer that marked and defined him for the rest of his life.