A British
Soldier's Story

A Brief Discourse
on 18th Century Games

The Compleat
Cuthbertson
CD ROM

A Man Called
Baraboo

A Modest Collection
of Traditional SONGS of the
Colonial Period

The Packet

The Packet II

The Packet III

The Packet IV

The 1764
Manual Exercise

Ballindalloch Press was founded in 1999 to provide re-enactors and American history enthusiasts with accurate, easy to read and understand information on the material culture of the 18th century. Our first book was The Packet, and over the years our offerings have now grown and expanded to include 10 titles.

Ballindalloch Press (roughly pronounced Bal-in-DUH-luck) is named for Ballindalloch Castle, the ancestral home of Major General James Grant (1720-1806), who served during the American War for Independence. It was General Grant who stood up in the British House of Commons in February of 1775 and stated that the Americans "could not fight" and that he would "undertake to march from one end of the continent to the other with five thousand men" These words are often used to illustrate just how badly the English understood the situation in the colonies, but in the period a force of 5,000 was significant, and if Grant's later insistance that all of the major cities in America be put to the torch is any indication, it is very likely that, had Grant been in charge, the ringleaders of the rebellion would have been far more concerned with rebuilding their homes and businesses than with staging a formal revolution.

Ballindalloch Press will continue to strive to offer quality, affordable books on the American colonial experience -- the most fascinating period of United States history.