Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
And whilst some Americans might have viewed Highlanders as the enemy, the regimental history of the Royal Highland Regiment specifically states that the Black Watch took no battle honours for the Revolution because it was a war between "kith and kin".

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I remember seeing a movie about the Battle of New Orleans in 1814, where US troops led by Col. Andrew Jackson are being set upon by Highlanders with their terrifying war pipes blaring and with Congreaves rockets also shrieking overhead... I think this was the movie that also inspired Johnny Horton's song about the battle... anyway there was a strong Scots presence there, as a psy-war element of the enemy British forces!