Highlanders in the French and Indian Wars

[macwilkin]

Ok, now that I understand this quote was refering to uniforms and soldiers, I was mostly pondering whether some colonial Americans would have had the opportunity to see the kilt being worn, whether by civilians or soldiers, in America going back to this time period. The same might not be true of some other type of ethnic clothing from a different culture, for example, Middle Eastern clothing.

If colonial civilians lived near the theatre of operations in the French & Indian War, Ted, then no doubt they would have seen some Highlanders in kilts.

The historian Fernec Szasz notes a particularly nasty incident during the Revolution in one of the Carolinas where Highlander POWs were verbally and phsyically abused by Colonial civilians as they were being escorted behind the lines.

T.