[Pharmboy]

Just an FYI for you and all your Celtic brethren and sistren, 30% of the American Revoltionary Army was Irish (many also fought on the Crown's side, but not this high a percentage).

Source: A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier, Signet Classic, 2001, by Joseph Plumb Martin. (Irish per cent from the Introduction by Thomas Fleming).

[DensaMensa]

>Just an FYI for you and all your Celtic brethren and sistren, 30% of the American Revoltionary Army was Irish (many also fought on the Crown's side, but not this high a percentage).

Almost the entire army on both sides were Celts. Just another of the many Celt vs Celt battles throughout history.

[Wallace T.]

The largest portion of the Irish who fought in the Continental Army was Scotch-Irish, who were descendants of Lowland Scots, with some Highland Scots, Northern English, and "original Irish" mixture, who emigrated to Northern Ireland in the 16th and 17th Centuries, as part of an attempt by the Tudor and Stuart monarchs to establish loyal subjects in Ireland. The Lowland Scots spoke Scots English, a dialect of English, and not a Celtic language. The Celtic languages had died out in the Lowlands during the Middle Ages. The Lowlanders were linguistically Anglo-Saxon and at least partially Germanic (Anglo Saxon and Scandinavian) by race and culture.

[stands2reason]

Irish or Scots Irish?

[stands2reason]

Disregard, didn't see the date.

MAJOR thread resurrection from '01