Posted on 06/28/2009 6:41:21 PM PDT by PotatoHeadMick
They wore P-shirts!!
A most excellent book on the Scots was BORN FIGHTING - HOW THE SCOTS-IRISH SHAPED AMERICA.
Synopsis
More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England’s Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, traveling in groups of families and bringing with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters. Their cultural identity reflected acute individualism, dislike of aristocracy and a military tradition, and, over time, the Scots-Irish defined the attitudes and values of the military, of working class America, and even of the peculiarly populist form of American democracy itself.
Born Fighting is the first book to chronicle the full journey of this remarkable cultural group, and the profound, but unrecognized, role it has played in the shaping of America. Written with the storytelling verve that has earned his works such acclaim as “captivating . . . unforgettable” (the Wall Street Journal on Lost Soliders), Scots-Irishman James Webb, Vietnam combat veteran and former Naval Secretary, traces the history of his people, beginning nearly two thousand years ago at Hadrian’s Wall, when the nation of Scotland was formed north of the Wall through armed conflict in contrast to England’s formation to the south through commerce and trade. Webb recounts the Scots’ odyssey—their clashes with the English in Scotland and then in Ulster, their retreat from one war-ravaged land to another.Through engrossing chronicles of the challenges the Scots-Irish faced, Webb vividly portrays how they developed the qualities that helped settle the American frontier and define the American character.
Born Fighting shows that the Scots-Irish were 40 percent of the Revolutionary War army; they included the pioneers Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Davy Crockett, and Sam Houston; they were the writers Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain; and they have given America numerous great military leaders, including Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Audie Murphy, and George S. Patton, as well as most of the soldiers of the Confederacy (only 5 percent of whom owned slaves, and who fought against what they viewed as an invading army). It illustrates how the Scots-Irish redefined American politics, creating the populist movement and giving the country a dozen presidents, including Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. And it explores how the Scots-Irish culture of isolation, hard luck, stubbornness, and mistrust of the nation’s elite formed and still dominates blue-collar America, the military services, the Bible Belt, and country music.
Horse urine is used in the manufacture of certain medications...Back in the 40's drug companies paid preg. women to collect their urine..My mother had a friend that use to do that...they would even supply the proper containers for the collection...It was extra money during hard times....depression didn't end until WW2
And painted their asses blue...right?
Right?
I don’t have a horse so I guess I’ll just wear a kilt in my next major battle.
Medieval Scottish soldiers fought wearing bright yellow war shirts dyed in horse urine ...
...and with this additional fact we can now begin to piece together the unmistakeable entity marveled at throughout the world, namely “Scottish Hygiene”...
..and discuss...
MacKenzie clan ping
Groundskeeper Willie: “Now, the kilt was only for day-to-day wear. In battle, we donned a full-length ball gown covered in sequins. The idea was to blind your opponent with luxury.”
this is long overdue information/sarc
New reasearch? I read about this ages ago. The saffron shirt and much earlier, of course, the naked native charging invaders. I was a teenager when I read about it in National Geographic. Of all the things to stay in my mind all these years. lol. I actually remember being shocked that a man would run around nekkid on a battlefield.
NO! Hollywood always depicts things exactly as they really happened. Longshanks really did kill his gay son’s lover by throwing him from a window, and Robert the Bruce really was an opportunist cowed by his domineering father until Wallace’s example sparked some courage in him. It’s all true! I saw it on the screen.
Urine used to be used around the world as a fixative for natural dyes. I’m reading right now “Color - a Natural History of the Palette”. Really, really interesting storytelling.
The fact they were both uncommonly pretty was only an aside. The McDonalds and Campbells were mortal enemies in Scotland.
BTW one had blonde hair and blue eyes The other had Black hair and blue eyes. Both had figures which were as near as I could tell, perfect in every way.
Yes, I’m well aware of the feud. Glencoe.
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