In this book, accompanying a broad history of the many changes in the formations, uniforms and equipment of the British Regiments, is a lavishly illustrated account of the corresponding details of overseas units formed in Colonial America, Canada, India, Australasia and Africa. Through the many and varied forms of weapons, equipment and uniforms with which the British soldier has fought in so great a variety of climates and against such widely differing opponents, the author's deep knowledge of his subject has produced a book which is both a mine of information and a colourful picture of some little-known by-roads of British history.