Tour Scotland Video Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Memorial Stirling Castle

Tour Scotland video of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Memorial at the entrance to Stirling Castle, Scotland. the Argyll and Sutherland Highlander have a well earned reputation for valour in the face of the enemy, most notably the 93rd, later known as the 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, during the Crimean War. It was there that the 93rd earned the sobriquet of The Fighting Highlanders and carried with it the status of having been the original Thin Red Line. This title was bestowed following the action of the 93rd at Balaklava on 25 October 1854 in which this single battalion alone stood between the undefended British Army base at Balaklava and four squadrons of charging Russian cavalry. The 93rd, under the command of Sir Colin Campbell, not only held steady, but for the first time in the history of the British Army, broke a large cavalry charge using musket fire alone, without having been formed into a square.

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