scots guards

trooping the colour 1997

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[juultjuh99]

I'm Dutch and I'm proud on my British brothers they helped liberate my country in world war 2 and together with the French, Spanish and Dutch the British helped to civilize the world. Long live the Anglo-Dutch alliance and long live Western Europe!

[flygweilo]

The 'bizarre hats' - as you call them - are called 'bearskins', and are a battle honour from 1815 and the Battle of Waterloo.

After the 'Foot Guards' (as they were then known) had been largely responsible for repulsing Napoleon's Imperial Guard near he end of the battle (the first and only time this ever happened to Napoleon's Imperial Guard, by the way) a very impressed and grateful Duke of Wellington asked the Foot Guards to choose a battle honour.

[Beaker11000]

Insperato62 who mentioned Edward Longshanks? Just providing an answer to a user question. Proud to be Scottish AND British actually

[Insperato62]

@Beaker11000 - I fully understand you are a proud people, so are the ordinary English in a different way.We admire & appreciate the Scottish military contribution over the centuries (tho' I gather you no longer like being called Jocks?) but we are sick to death of the continual harping on about Edward Longshanks etc.Please move on.Even a Scottish MP said your national anthem was racist (a new folk song!!).We get the message.Time for total independence.Good luck.

[Beaker11000]

Many Highlanders at Culloden felt betrayed by the French who were supposed to send reinforcements to help the cause. One way of gaining revenge was for the Highlanders to join the British army and fight the French in later wars. It was also a way of keeping their traditions after Culloden since wearing the kilt was banned except in Highland Regiments. Scots people are proud and so would never do a job half heartedly hence the Scottish regiments built a reputation as formidable fighting units.

[Beaker11000]

Garden2010city it’s much more complex than that. It wasn’t the Scots against the English at Culloden it was the Jacobites (loyal to the Catholic Stuarts) made up largely of Highlanders and people from the north of England against the Government forces (which contained English units, Lowland Scots and some Highland clans) who were loyal to the Hanover king.

[garden2010city]

PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME: I'm foreigner in the UK so I do not understand following problem .I think that Scotts didnt like English after Battle of Culloden etc. so what was the point for them to fight for the Queen and serve in the British Army .Even if they had to do that to avoid prison(national service etc.) why they tried hard fighting for the nation they didnt like.Why they didnt surrender easily and didnt do very poor job on the battlefields like Italians did during WW2?Thanks for answer

[kriegkoenigwig1]

Where’s the Kilt ...... ?

[haitipi]

@palus666

True, but it seems that dickheads from all nations seem to want to use YouTube to talk about things of which they have little or no qualifying knowledge.

[jhonsykes]

God save the Queen

[chucklepants69]

What a Regiment! Proud to have served.

[dsindc]

@palus666 All that said, there really is only one country Americans have unconditional respect for, and that is the U.K. When push comes to shove, e.g. the Falklands, there is really no debate about which side we will support. In that sense, we are in many ways carrying on British traditions. We have fallen short ( yes, especially under the cretin G. Bush), just as Britain did during its imperial era. Nonethless, I do think the world is a better place because of the US, and the UK. Cheers !