THE HIGHLAND REGIMENTS IN THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR, 1756-1767
Two Volumes
Meet the author, Ian Macpherson McCulloch
Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Macpherson McCulloch, CD, is a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Educated in Scotland and Switzerland, he holds a degree in Journalism (1977) from Carleton University, Ottawa, and a Master’s Degree in War Studies (1996) from the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston. He joined the Canadian Army in 1977 and has served in a variety of regimental and staff appointments in Canada, USA, and Germany, including an exchange posting with the British Army’s Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1993, he assumed command of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada and in 1996 was appointed Deputy Director of History & Heritage for the Canadian Forces in Ottawa. In 2000, he was posted to Canadian Medical Group Headquarters in Ottawa as a Special Assistant to the Director General Health Services. He is now serving as a NATO senior staff officer at Headquarters Supreme Allied Command Transformation in Norfolk, Virginia.
Ian is an avid military historian specializing in the Seven Years’ War in North America and has published numerous articles on that subject in such journals as Osprey Military Journal, Battlefield Review, Canadian Military History, The Beaver, Canadian Infantry Journal, and The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum. In 1998 he served as a historical consultant for the Seven Years’ War episode on CBC’s Canada: A People’s History, and has also appeared on A&E’s Civil War Journal. An original contributor to Fighting For Canada: Seven Battles (Toronto, 2000) with a monograph on the Battle of Ticonderoga, 1758, Ian’s most recent projects include a battle study of the bloodiest action ever fought on Canadian soil in the companion volume, More Fighting for Canada: Five Battles, 1760-1944 (Toronto, 2004) about the Battle of Sillery 1760, outside Quebec; and, authoring a book for Osprey Books (UK) entitled British Light Infantryman of the Seven Years War, 1756-1763, North America, (Oxford, 2004) with friend and colleague, Timothy J. Todish. He and Tim have also edited Through So Many Dangers: The Memoirs and Adventures of Robert Kirk, Late of the Royal Highland Regiment published in May 2004 by Purple Mountain Press, a reprint of a rare 1775 book, first published in Ireland by a Highland soldier who served with the 42nd and 77th Regiments of Foot in North America, 1757-1767.
Ian is a active member of the Fort Ticonderoga Association and past Chairman of the Interpretation/Education Committee. He lives in Virginia Beach with his wife Susan (a past Deputy Director of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum).
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