An historical account of the settlements of Scotch highlanders in America prior to the Peace of 1783 : together with notices of highland regiments and biographical sketches . omewhat similarity of dress, they be-lieved to be of the same extraction with themselves, and there-fore considered them to be brothers. During the whole of 1756 theregiment remained inactive in winter and spring of 1757 theywere drilled and disciplined for bush-fighting and sharpshooting, a speciesof warfare then necessary and forwhich they were well fitted, being ingeneral good marksmen, and expertin the mana
An historical account of the settlements of Scotch highlanders in America prior to the Peace of 1783 : together with notices of highland regiments and biographical sketches . omewhat similarity of dress, they be-lieved to be of the same extraction with themselves, and there-fore considered them to be brothers. During the whole of 1756 theregiment remained inactive in winter and spring of 1757 theywere drilled and disciplined for bush-fighting and sharpshooting, a speciesof warfare then necessary and forwhich they were well fitted, being ingeneral good marksmen, and expertin the management of their arms. In the month of June, 1757, lordLoudon, who had been appointedcommander-in-chief of the army inNorth America, with the 226, 426.,44th, 48th, 2d and 4th battalions ofthe 60th, together with six hundredRangers, making in all five thousandand three hundred men, embarked forHalifax, where his force was in-creased to ten thousand and five hun-dred men by the addition of five regi-ments lately arrived from England,which included Frasers and Mont-gomerys Highlanders. ? When on theeve of his departure for an attack onLouisburg, information was received. Highland Officer. FIRST HIGHLAND REGIMENTS IN AMERICA. 257 that the Brest fleet, consisting of seventeen sail of the line, be-sides frigates, had arrived in the harbor of that fortress. Letters,which had been captured in a vessel bound from Louisburg toFrance, revealed that the force was too great to be Loudon abandoned the enterprise and soon after returned toNew York taking with him the Highlanders and four other regi-ments. By the addition of three new companies and the junction ofseven hundred recruits The Black Watch or 42nd, was nowaugmented to upwards of thirteen hundred men, all Highland-ers, for at that period, none others were admitted. During the absence of lord Loudon, Montcalm, the Frenchcommander, was very active, and collecting all his disposableforces, including Indians, and a large
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