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Frederick B. Richards
Best known for writing about the Black Watch at Ticonderoga, this early 20th-century American author brought military history to life with a clear interest in people, place, and remembered events.
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The Black Watch at Ticonderoga and Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe
by Frederick B. Richards
About the author
Frederick B. Richards, also listed as Frederick Bates Richards, was an American writer whose life dates are given as 1859–1949 in Wikisource and as 1858–1949 in a burial-related record for his family. The available sources agree that he belonged to an earlier generation of writers and that his work is now in the public domain.
He is chiefly associated with The Black Watch at Ticonderoga and Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe, a historical work focused on the famous Highland regiment and the French and Indian War. His writing is remembered less for a large, widely documented career than for this specialized contribution to military and regional history.
Reliable online information about his personal life is limited, and I could not confirm a suitable portrait from the pages available during this search. For readers, that gives his work an added sense of discovery: the books remain easier to find than the man himself.