Blair Collection > Celtic monthly > Volume 2, 1894

THE OELTTC MONTHLY.
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Should successive governments be permitted to
eflace so distinctive and distinguished a uniform I
The regiments which composed the Highland
Brigade at Waterloo, Alma, and in India, with
other equally national Scottish corps, from the
day they were first enrolled to the present time,
have conferred the highest honour and glory
upon their country by their bravery and manly
conduct in the field, and l)y their equally ex-
cellent behaviour in quarters. They well deserve
the hearty welcome, the artectionate greetings,
the kindly embraces of their " auld mither,"
whenever they are permitted to meet her.
Between Scotland and her gallant soldier sons
exists a vein of affection, respect and regard,
wholly unfelt, unknown, in other countries.
Her sons are delighted to visit the old country.
The "auld mither" is cliarraed at the expecta-
' BLACK WATCH-
EEPEI.LING A FRENCH CAVALEY CHARGE
AT WATERLOO.
The .above spirited Picture is reproduced from Messrs. W, & A. K. Johnston's excellent
work on the *' Black Watch." which
tion of again seeing and meeting with her
martial sons returning to lier with credit and
honour, and the reception she prepares for them,
and accords to them with such spontaniety and
enthusiasm is nowhere else witnessed. Long
may this continue !
The soldier's ditty often heard "sixty years
since," well describes the position of the allied
armies in the eventful month of June, 18L5.
Ou the 16th day of .June, my lads, in Flanders where
we lay
Our bugles did the alarm sound, before the break of day,
Our British, Belgians, Brunswickers, and Haiioveriaua
too,
Brussels we left that morning for the plains of Waterloo.
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At Quatre Bras we met the French, their shape to us
seemed new.
For tliey were in steel armour clad for the field of
Waterloo.