Fighting for the King

The French Revolutionary War, 1793. When the Revolutionaries execute his friend Alan, Gregory Kennett purchases a commission in the 136th Foot. Marching from siege to skirmish, Kennett learns that war and soldiering is not what he expected. As the campaign unravels and Europe shifts beneath marching feet, one man’s hidden past may decide who lives long enough to see home again.

And then, the bitter winter of 1795 closes in... and only survival matters. A tale of duty and courage set in the French Revolutionary War, FIGHTING FOR THE KING is the first book in the Kennett's Campaigns series of historical novels by Malcolm Archibald. The principal historical frame is Flanders Campaign. The novel places regimental survival within the unstable coalitions and global warfare of the 1790s, when battlefield reverses, espionage and naval unrest threatened Britain simultaneously.