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To: imardmd1
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.

34 posted on 08/28/2014 2:11:13 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Thanks for the correction. You’re a much better British historian. I must have forgotten to much of what my pipe instructor tried to explain. So there were no Lowlanders engaged at New Orleans?


41 posted on 08/28/2014 3:36:22 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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