Tag: American Revolution

Let us not forget the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders – those Kilted Celts – who advanced across the open field in New Orleans with bagpipes blaring and drums a banging! After the battle, the American rebels described how the British soldiers had died with arms, legs, and heads blown-off – whilst the wounded sat (or lay) laughing – trying to regain their their often non-existent feet – and still follow orders to advance! How difference this behaviour was to the average American soldier who often ran-away in the face of the enemy. The British had freed US slaves and intended to build a country for Native Americans – but the nefarious Americans put an end to all these utopian ideas. Not only this, but Mississipi, Louisiana, and Florida wanted to secede from the US and join “British North America” (Canada) – even if Spain re-established sovereignty over those areas.