Fighting for the King

Name: Fighting for the King
Rating: 4.3 (239 reviews)

by Malcolm Archibald Book 1 in the Kennett’s Campaigns series.

First published 2026

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In 1793, the execution of his friend Alan persuades Gregory Kennett to buy a commission in the 136th Foot and join Britain’s war against Revolutionary France. He enters the army expecting honour and action, but the Flanders Campaign quickly teaches him about confused orders, hard marching, siege warfare and the gap between patriotic language and a soldier’s daily experience.

As the allied campaign begins to unravel, Gregory and the men around him are drawn into skirmishes and retreats while a hidden past threatens one of their own. The bitter winter of 1795 turns military ambition into a struggle simply to survive. The novel follows a young officer learning his profession inside the unstable coalition warfare of the French Revolutionary Wars.