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Ian is an avid military
historian specializing in the Seven Years War in North America and has
published articles in numerous international journals and magazines such as
Osprey Military Journal (UK), Civil War (US), The BEAVER (Canada),
Battlefield Review (UK), Celtic Heritage (Canada), Canadian Infantry
Journal, Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum (USA) The Dispatch (UK),
among others. In 1998, Ian served as a historical consultant for the Seven
Year’s 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 (Robin Brass Studios: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 - the
Battle of Sillery,1760 outside Quebec - in the companion volume, More
Fighting for Canada: Five Battles, 1760-1944 (Robin Brass: Toronto,
2004); authoring a book for Osprey Books (UK) entitled British Light
Infantryman of the Seven Years War, 1756-1763, North America, (Oxford, 2004)
and editing Through So Many Dangers: The Memoirs and Adventures of Robert
Kirk, Late of the Royal Highland Regiment (Purple Mountain Press:Fleichmanns,
New York, 2004), 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) where he
is currently writing his next book; Sons of the Mountains: A History of the
Highland Regiments in North America, 1756-1767., a joint publication of the
Fort Ticonderoga Museum and Purple Mountain Press, due out Spring 2006.
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