These brave hearts who filled our frontiers and won the land from their murderous predecessors, first came to fight against Americans in the Revolution, because they were promised for that service to be able once again, to wear the tartans and carry arms, and to pipe the terror-inducing war threnodies calling for valor in battle, which tokens were forbidden under English tyranny for many years because of their allegiance to the Stuarts, esp. to the memory of "The Bonnie Prince, Charlie."
Thank the Lord for them and their Reformed theology, for John Knox and Scottish engineering, for stiffening the American spine in our worst struggles for freedom! May their loyalty since to our Flag be heralded forever!
These brave hearts who filled our frontiers and won the land from their murderous predecessors, first came to fight against Americans in the Revolution, because they were promised for that service to be able once again, to wear the tartans and carry arms, and to pipe the terror-inducing war threnodies calling for valor in battle, which tokens were forbidden under English tyranny for many years because of their allegiance to the Stuarts, esp. to the memory of "The Bonnie Prince, Charlie."Correction: it was Union tyranny, not "English" tyranny. The Jacobite rebellions were never wars for Scottish independence and the Protestant lowland Scots hated the Jacobite Highlanders more than the English did.