A colleague of mine in the Park Service forwarded me an e-mail concerning the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge (1776), where supposedly the "last" Highland Charge with broadswords was made by Scottish loyalists against Ulster-Scottish Patriot forces (Their battle cry was "King George & Broadswords!
) ... for years it was portrayed as a "mini-Culloden", with great kilts, etc., but now research is showing that highland dress was not as prevelent as once belived...BUT, we know that their were Scottish Loyalist regiments like the Royal Highland Immigrants that wore kilt & tartan, and I remember reading a story about a fellow buried in Texas in the 1850's in full kilt, only to be exhumed by a relative when a graveyard was to be moved -- the fellow opened the coffin and discovered the old boy in a kilt and registered the tartan as the "Laing" tartan.

It's an interesting subject, to be sure. I think the Scots in Canada certainly were aware & displayed their colours, and I believe that some (but not all) did in the lower colonies as well.

Great posts, Alaskan Celt!

T.