BRITAIN 1813

72° REGIMENT OF THE HIGHLANDERS

To separate sporadic exceptions, as the 42° born real regiment at the beginning of the XVIII century from an agreement between the various Scottish clan, nearly all the unit of Highlanders, in origin with the name of Highlanders is indicated only the inhabitants of Scotland northern, that is those tribe that lifes in the hilly region of the Highlands and they spoke the Gaelic, they are constituted after the defeat of Carlo Edoardo Stuart to work of George II di Hannover , in the battle of Culloden ( 16 April 1746 ).

About the descendant of to him Stuart were in fact harvest the independence hope remnant of Scotland, and its defeat marked the beginning of a very hard period for the region, during which the unites redemption possibility offer to the young was enlist in the British army. Between the 1759 and 1793 are formed so further twenty regiment of Highlanders, at first pawned in the war of the seven years, then drawn up against the France revolutionary and Napoleon. the released fidelity to the British crown doesn't prevent however to to it Highlanders of claiming always with forces the really range: not to case they are shown very reticent to conform the really uniform to that of the other bodies of the British army and only in the 1790 accepted of be converted in regular unit.

UNIFORM

The uniform of Highlanders includes a cap of black hair with red and white plume, a generally red jacket with collar and yellow cuffs, a kilt in tartan, knee socks to coloured square and shoe with buckle gilds. in the case of the officials the degree was indicated between the other from the gilded ruff on the breast and from an amaranthine band that went from the left shoulder to the right flank.

In origin is the jacket is the kilt of Highlanders was in tartan, the wool characteristic Scottish to coloured square. Only with the end of the XVIII if I filter the jacket began to be in dye it unites, and in place of the cap of black hair without visor. The hat old man yet remained in equipment of Highlander and thick worn under the hair cap.

To more revival the British authority attempted of replacing the kilt, under which not worn any linen type, with more canonical trousers; but Highlanders is opposed to this change, because they considered the short skirt to bend a distinctive element of the really identity.


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