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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 07:17:50 PST


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>For the "newbies" of the last year or so on the list, I would like to
offer
>the following items for your consideration as I hold a considerable
>different view than Rev. Andrews on the subject of the wearing of the
kilt.
>
>The kilt was worn and displayed in Europe and in North America by
Highland
>Regiments and it is the recognition gained by valiant Scottish
Highlanders
>in various national wars of liberation after 1745 that I honor by
wearing
>the kilt and not 19th century British fashion trends.
>
>The popularization of the kilt in the United States was initiated by
>wealthy Americans of Scottish descent such as Andrew Carneige who
sought
>outward manifestations of their Scottish heritage and not Balmoral
fashion.
>
>The Highlanders of the 42nd Regiment known now as The Black Watch
served
>under Major Grant at the charge on Fort Dusquene in the 1760's in which
>over 100 Scottish Highlanders were killed by the Indians, decapitated,
>their heads placed on poles lining the entrance to the Fort and the
poles
>wrapped with the kilts of the slain solgiers.
>
>Later, a year or so, at Bushy Run in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania,
the
>last great HighlandCharge took place, in which the Highlanders soundly
>repelled the Indians and scattered the French back to Erie and Detroit.
It
>was not until the Battle of Bushy Run that the "West"[ the lands west
of
>the Allegheny Mountains] was opened for settlement in Pennsylvania.
>
>These are facts influential in my life and my heritage and which I
honor by
>wearing of the Colquhoun tartan kilt. I am particularly proud that
>Colquhouns were instrumental in the formtion of the "Watches" in
Dumbarton,
>Scotland, that they were Scouts and Traders in early western
Pennsylvania,
>and that the Malcom Colquhoun, Younger, of Luss, the next Colquhoun
Chief,
>married a woman from Pennsylvania' and that the eldest son of their
>marriage, who will follow in the footsteps of his father, shares in
this
>Highland/Pennsylvania heritage.
>
>
>
>
>Cowan, County Down
>Cowan, Cowansville, PA
>McClay, County Tyrone
>MacLea, Argyll
>
>

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