Colonial Warrior Books

Billy Bacon and the Soldier Slaves… Billy Bacon the butcher’s apprentice, faces the choice of being abused or of killing his abuser. Charged with murder, he flees and joins the Army. In 1786, he finds safety in a battalion bound for India where he survives disease and conflict and learns to be a good soldier. However, he doesn’t feel safe once back in England. With the chance of another foreign posting, Billy rises through the ranks and joins a previously unknown regiment of slave soldiers in the Sugar Islands. Books best read in series order. Historical Note An estimated ten thousand slaves were bought and became soldiers in the period of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and the survivors became free men. It was always difficult to find officers and very few commissions were sold. A number - how many is unknown for lack of records - of regular sergeants were given regimental commissions and rose to senior rank. Published by The Electronic Book Company

Billy Bacon and the Spanish Main… In the Sugar Islands, Billy helps recruit more soldier slaves who are sent to Tobago where they face dangers from murderous French privateers and pirates. Back on Antigua, Billy’s next task is to prepare the fever-ravaged remnants of a fashionable London regiment to re-conquer Trinidad for the King, with the aim of landing on the treacherous Spanish Main. Books best read in series order. Historical Note An estimated ten thousand slaves were bought and became soldiers in the period of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and the survivors became free men. It was always difficult to find officers and very few commissions were sold. A number - how many is unknown for lack of records - of regular sergeants were given regimental commissions and rose to senior rank. Published by The Electronic Book Company

Billy Bacon has become a major at a young age and has joined the Company’s Army in Madras. There he does his best to become respectable, as a major must. He achieves a nabob’s daughter as fiancée and goes off to war, where he is involved in fierce fighting and comes out as a hero – very conveniently. Married, rich and respected, he is sent back to England to become a senior officer of the Training College for Company Officers, which is in the process of creation. As he is conveniently available when another mission arises, Billy is to leave England quite rapidly again.