Quote Originally Posted by Canuck of NI View Post
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!
That would be the 93rd...who were wearing trews at Chalmette. There's a great scene in the 1950s version of The Buccaneer where a "dirtyshirt" says of the pipes, "They give me the willies" -- to which, Andy Jackson (played by Charlton Heston, a kiltie from the Clan Fraser) replies, "That's the general idea".

Had the 93rd gotten the support it needed when it temporarily took an American redoubt at New Orleans, things might be a bit different today.

T.