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It has less seniority (168 years) than any other Scottish regiment, and many of its "Highlander" troops come from Glasgow or London. Still, that has not prevented the British army's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from enjoying a reputation almost as fierce as that of the mountain lairds of...
Even weirder, of course, was their uniform-an affront to starched red coat propriety from the tops of their bearskin hats to the tips of their famous diamond-patterned Argyll stockings. In fact, these fineries, plus the tartan kilt, so effectively kept Englishmen from signing on with the regiment that...
There has never been anything objectionable, however, or timid either, about the style of Argyll and Sutherland fighting. The regiment became famous throughout the empire when a London Times correspondent in 1854 sent back a dispatch on "the thin red line" of Argylls, standing two deep, that withstood a Russian...
When the sad news about the Argylls became known, angry Scots immediately announced a drive to save the historic regiment, and one of the first men to sign their petition was the Duke of Argyll, Sir Ian Douglas Campbell, a descendant of the unit's traditional officer clan. But...
Although MacLeod will be the only Presbyterian minister in an assembly that contains 26 Anglican bishops, he does not intend to be a spokesman for his faith, since, as he puts it, "I have not been famous for always saying the same thing as the Church of Scotland." Indeed not...