The Germans called these Scottish soldiers “Die Damen aus der Hölle,” the "Ladies from Hell" in reference to kilts they wore and their bravery in combat.
My grandpa from Glasgow was a teenage soldier in the black watch, 5th Highland light infantry. He fought in the battle of the Somme and the battle of Ypres. I had chills watching this knowing more about what he must have gone through, just wish I could have met him.😔 He survived the war ranking as a regimental sergeant major, and died later as an old man long before I was born. So proud of my Scottish heritage and what he went through to give us our freedoms we have today.
Black watch and Highland light infantry were two serperate Scottish regiments. The Black watch recruited from Fife and Dundee while Highland light Infantry recruited from Glasgow. Both had fierce reputations in both world wars
Black Watch (1739-2006) battle honours: - Guadaloupe 1759, Martinique 1762, Havannah, North America 1763-64, Peninsula War, Waterloo 1815, Mysore, Busaco, Salamanca, South Africa 1846-47, Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt 1882 '84, Kirbekan, Nile 1884-85, Paardeberg, South Africa 1899-1902 (Boer War) - World War 1: Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 '18, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Ypres 1914 '17 '18, Langemarck 1914, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Lys, Estaires, Messines 1918, Hazebrouck, Kemmel, Béthune, Scherpenberg, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Tardenois, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line 1918, Épéhy, St Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Doiran 1917, Macedonia 1915-18, Egypt 1916, Gaza, Jerusalem, Tell'Asur, Megiddo, Sharon, Damascus, Palestine 1917-18, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1915-17 - World War 2: Defence of Arras, Ypres-Comines Canal, Dunkirk 1940, Somme 1940, St. Valery-en-Caux, Saar, Breville, Odon, Fontenay le Pesnil, Defence of Rauray, Normandy 1944, Caen, Falaise, Falaise Road, La Vie Crossing, Le Havre, Lower Maas, Venlo Pocket, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Rhine 1945, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, Barkasan, British Somaliland 1940, Tobruk 1941, Tobruk Sortie, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Medenine, Zemlet el Lebene, Mareth, Akarit, Wadi Akarit East, Djebel Roumana, Medjez Plain, Si Mediene, Tunis, North Africa 1941-43, Landing in Sicily, Vizzini, Sferro, Gerbini, Adrano, Sferro Hills, Sicily 1943, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Advance to Florence, Monte Scalari, Casa Fortis, Rimini Line, Casa Fabbri Ridge, Savio Bridgehead, Italy 1944-45, Athens, Greece 1944-45, Crete, Heraklion, Middle East 1941, Burma 1944 - Post War: Korea 1952-53; Al Basrah, Iraq 2003; Second Battle of Fallujah, Iraq 2004 The Black Watch, although no longer a regiment, still exists today as the 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland (the Black Watch) and did two tours of Afghanistan in 2009 and 2011.
the amalgamation of regiments was because Scotland has such a drug problem and being infected by their Scottish nationalist party, there was a dire shortage of recruits. many Scottish units are filled with soldiers from England and the Commonwealth .. many English regiments were also amalgamated in recent years despite plenty of recruits volunteering. if Scotland produced more young men seeking career in Army they would not be a singe regiment now. if the SNP got their way and broke away from UK they would not even have that! there were an awful lot of Scots in the RAF when i served in 1980's and 90's
@@coling3957 More power to the Scotts and Irish seeking independence from the Crown. You say “infected by their Scottish nationalist party” sounds like you’re bit by your own nationalism bug, you need to let other free men, especially your neighbors, be free to make their own decisions. As Americans we killed quite a few foolish Brit who came oversees just to enforce their corrupt king’s will. Nationalism and being a Conservative done with woke globalist nonsense IS THE ONLY SANE WAY TO GO FORWARD.
Also the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada (31 January 1862-Present) 🇨🇦 The Fenian Raids 1866-1871 5th Battalion, Volunteer Militia Rifles of Canada The Second Boer War The First World War 1914-1918 The Western Front 13th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force 42nd Battalion, 7th Brigade, 3rd Division, CEF 73rd Battalion, 12th Brigade, 4th Division, CEF The Second World War 1939-1945 Western Front Operation Jubilee, Normandy, Cean, Falaise, Channel Ports and The Scheldt, Battle of Neder Rijn (Dutch Rhine) and the Liberation of Holland. The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, 5th (Quebec) Infantry Brigade, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division
Absolute chills watching this. As an American, I've always been fascinated with Scotland and the Scots in general, especially their fearsome fighting forces like the Black Watch. I was over the moon to visit back in 2009 both Edinburgh and the Highlands and meet so many amazing people in that proud country. Some of the nicest people in the world I've met yet.
As a Scot. If your familiar with Warhammer 40k. The Black Watch are somewhat like the Deathkorp of Krieg. A unit so devoted to combat that in the toughest of combat situation they Sally forth and rise victorious.
The Canadian Black Watch also fought valiantly in both world wars and is deserving of recognition. To this day they are perpetuated by a reserve infantry unit based in Montreal.
@@ferociousfil5747 Highland and Scottish. For example, the Canadian Scottish Regt on Vancouver Isle and the Toronto Scottish are not 'highland' per se. The highland regts do out number the Scottish ones, though.
@@mrtiesthatbind I won't pretend to be an expert but IIRC, highland units are historically associated with very specific, traditional regiments from the highland region as opposed to being generically Scottish. So, many of the original highland regiments have sister regiments in Canada. The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regt of Canada), the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders, the Gordon Highlanders, Cameron Highlanders, etc. We also have the non-highland Canadian Scottish Regt, the Toronto Sottish Regt, Lorne Scots... etc. Then there are specific Canadian highland regts associated with specific regions: Calgary Highlanders, Nova Scotia Highlanders, Highland Fusiliers etc...
I was born and raised in England, but Scots/Irish heritage. My Great Uncle was in the Black Watch and was killed at Dunkirk. We never knew what happened to his body, until we stumbled upon his grave in Northern France 15 years ago. The bravery of all these soldiers can never be forgotten.
if you have irish heritage then you should know the black watch brutalized irish men, women, and children in the troubles and got their just due from the IRA.
@@mfvitt8000 I'm also aware of other regiments who brutalised the Irish and of the IRA atrocities against British civilians. We learn from the horrors of the past and honour those we know fought for our collective freedoms. It's the least we can do, short of getting angry on the internet. I'm an Irish and British citizen and I know nobody is without blood on their hands.
My great grandfather was in this unit before immigrating to the states, Thank You for giving these brave men a stage on which people can be educated about them! Truly the bravest and highest class of men!
@Stanly Stud haha I can imagine, my dad was Black Watch and I'm in the process of joining the army but I'm avoiding the so called royal regiment of Scotland and probably going for the guards.
I got a request for a video. 2ENG during the Korean War. Engineers along with an Artillery Unit held the line near the 38th Parallel while everyone else had to retreat. They got surrounded and held out for 4 days before they had to burn the colors and flee into the jungle. Same 2E that earned "Devil Dog" status with the Marines in WW1. Wish they get more recognition.
@@caesarsaladsempire Yes, They burned anything that the Enemy at that time could use against America and its Allies. They also destroyed there equipment making it unservicable for the Enemy. Same concept for every flagpole you see on Military Post or Gov Blg. Not far away is a buried box that holds a match razor and 1911. Shred and burn the flag and choose to off yourself or fight for a bit longer before that position is overwhelmed.
@@caesarsaladsempire what walo has said is pure myth and is sometimes used as a trick question on promotion boards to throw a curve as young soldiers. When we say burn their colors that means the units guidons and battle streamers.
My grandmother had two step-uncles from Glasgow, Scotland that served in WW1. I believe one served in the Black Watch while the other served in the Scots Guards.
As a young man I was told that 1 of my ancestors started the black watch. Lord Duncan Campbell. I never really knew anything else about them. This was very educational thank you.
The Black Watch is so Famouse that they are used in a Lot of Science Fiction as Well. They are used in Battletech for Example and where so Dedicated to Duty and Honor that they couldnt even be Killed Completly by Useing Nukes against them. They are a Legendary Regiment both in Real Life and in Fiction.
I'm a Brit who lives in Sotogrande, southern Spain which is about 20 minutes away from Gibraltar. In Gibraltar there's a reenactment group which parades through main street dressed in Black Watch uniforms (red coats, kilts, fur skin hat and brown bess muskets)
I'm Canadian of Irish and Scottish descent so I love learning about this type of thing. I'd love to go to Scotland and Ireland some day. In my province Prince Edward Island and even the rest of Atlantic Canada you can still see so much Scottish/Irish influence on our culture to this day
Scotland's heroes tried to join them a few years ago sadly couldn't but i will always remember and honor them as a clansman of campbell and a scotsman and i am glad we scots finally get some recognition
I understand that the South Africans were part of the 9th Scottish Division ( nicknamed the Jocks and the Boks) and My Grandfather and two of his brothers (all in the 8th Battalion Black Watch (HIghland Cyclists))were also part of that Division .The three of them were farm workers before the war and my Grandfather was the only one to survive.One of their relatives joined the Natal Mounted Police just before the second Boer war kicked off and had been one of General Buller’s bodyguard.
Funnily enough, the Blackwatch would become fictional icons as well, due to Battletech. Tex talks quite a bit about them but to give you an idea, the Blackwatch of Battletech is beyond legendary (on the tabletop, their piloting and gunnery skills are _0s_ not the 1-6 that usually applies and this number helps determine the 'target number' for a dice roll for an action). They were a 'Royal' Regiment of the Star League, and they were given the best equipment and training that (at the time) humanity could muster. When Stephen Amaris (aka BT Palpy) eliminated the entire Cameron dynasty in a coup, one of his goons accidentally tripped a failsafe alarm and got vaporized... which alerted the Blackwatch. The first responders were a mix of various infantry including jump-pack troops (who braved the automated anti-infantry weaponry (which Amaris managed to turn) of the palace to start breaching into the throne room) while the 'mechs started mobilizing. Quickly the infantry managed to get close enough that they could kill Amaris, who was at this time radioing his troops to reinforce him. Amaris would send a few nukes at various Blackwatch bases, and particularly at Fort Cameron (aka Blackwatch HQ). Nine of these 'mechs would be outside of the blast radius and made their last stand in the nearby flats between Unity City and Pudget Sound. They stood between the Rim Worlds Republic 4th Dragoons and Unity City... and for several hours they _stopped the 4th Dragoons dead in their tracks_ (reducing the elite 4th Dragoons from a _regiment_ to a handful of battered _companies_ when it was all said and done). The 4th Dragoons managed to wither the ad-hoc unit to 5 'mechs before deciding to send units to pin the remainder down before sending _two_ tactical nukes on them... ... and _some of the Blackwatch survived_ all that, creating the resistance group 'Ghosts of the Blackwatch'... and depending who you ask kept Amaris up at night just by existing.
A unit that loves whisky, murder, and bagpipes, but not in that order. Their favorite grenade is satchel charge and they're graduates of the Gunslinger program.
I learned of the Black Watch through Napoleon total war and Battletech. The Black Watch in Battletech are particularly noteworthy as they are a bunch of mad bastards who find nukes to be an inconvenience.
You guys should do a video in the Punitive expedition during the Mexican revolution or the Mexican revolution in general, is a very interesting and complicated event with historical events, such as the first combat use of the Airplane in the world.
I went to Glasgow when I was younger and witnessed a few street fights, everyone of them occurred in front of a pub. They would be bleeding but smiling. You can tell they didn’t take it all that serious 😂 you don’t want to mess with these people lol. My family emigrated from Scotland to America in the 1700s. Clan Fletcher from Argyll
My grandad was an Irish man from Cork. He served in the black watch regiment in the trenches and then settled in the North East of England after the great war . Sadly he died a year or so before I was born in the 1960s.
The locals towns i live in and nearby have photos of the Scottish regiments before and after WW1. Its really heartwrenching to see some photos with 300 troops reduced to less than 20. For the little villages, they never did recover populations.
@@c.9900 Gurkhas and Scot’s have fought side by side for 200+ years. In 1949 the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) were affiliated officially with 7th Gurkha Rifles and to mark the occasion the Regiment asked that the 7th Gurkhas should wear their tartan - the Douglas. The Douglas tartan is worn to this day by soldiers of The Royal Gurkha Rifles and is just one example of Gurkha regiments wearing tartan to honour connections to Scottish comrades.
I am actually in the SD&G highlanders we are close to the blackwatch and the other several scottish units in canada search up each of these units in canada and you can see Battle honors and our pride cheers and up the Glens.
My great great grandfather was part of the 4th/5th who fought in the 3rd battle of Ypres. He was originally part of the Scottish Horse Regiment but after that was dismounted he became part of the Black Watch. He has no known grave as during a heavy bombardment while trying to reach an objective called Tower Hamlets, 32 of the 37 killed that day were blown to pieces. Very proud of my heritage, and have visited Tynecot memorial where his name is immortalised.
@@bobSCOTT99 no REAL scot would ever consider themselves a Brit..... Move to your overlords in England or any other member of the UK... How they traitors learn your history 🤡
Doubtful. If anything, I'd say it gives them a charge or melee bonus. Not that they AREN'T crack shots, but when you hear the pipes, you can't tell me you don't have the urge to charge screaming at the enemy and introduce him to whatever god he worships in a very personal manner!
The Scottish Canadian Celtic punk band the Real Mckenzies has a lot of songs about Scottish and Canadian regiments and war heroes. They have a couple songs about this
Oh look, it's the graduates of the Gunslinger program. They drive their General Motors into battle and nukes are merely inconvenient to them. Ten points for Gryffindor if you get the reference.
Born in England, raised in the US, my grandmother was from Belfast, and another was Edinburgh...my Irish and English family always said the Scots were the most nuts and hardest of the lot. We're from the Gordan Clan btw.
36th Ulster Division would be a great addition. Made up of UVF men that was created to fight against Irish Home Rule to join the ranks 3 regiments in the Division on the outbreak of WWI. To be the only British Division to gain all objectives at the Somme 1st July 1916, and King Edward claiming they were the finest men he ever seen in 1915 just before they left for France. A Division close to Northern Ireland's heart and to mine due to a few family members being in it
A veteran of the great war called Alfred Anderson who was born in 1899 and died in 2003. He served in the black watch and fought in the trenches. Watch his video on TH-cam when he tells his story.
Guys can you do one on the obscure story of the 40th Army Band? Their troopship was torpedoed and they lost their instruments and so went ashore and fought as a separate infantry platoon in the Philippines, every member receiving a combination of purple hearts and bronze and silver stars.
My grandpa, Willie Ross, joined the Royal Highland Regiment, AKA The Black Watch in February 1914 just a month or two after his 18th birthday and six months before the outbreak of war. Although badly wounded in action he survived the war but died in 1923 aged just 27, leaving my grannie to raise two bairns on just an army widow’s pension.
"Let me tell you about the Black Watch... The Black Watch or 191st Royal Battlemech Division could trace it's lineage back to Ancient Scotland of Terra, in 1725 as a volunteer militia for the purposes of keeping watch for crime. By the 28th Century, they had significantly evolved. In the purest terms, The Black Watch was no joke; they were not a parade unit. They were not a Propaganda piece to scare people into leaving the Royal Family alone, and they did not idly bask in their Royal Regiment status. They were the chosen protectors of House Cameron, and thus, the First Family of Star League. The Black Watch was not a Bauble or a Plaything. They were a ruthlessly loyal fighting force dedicated to their duty. They were a hardened group of war-fighting experts given the finest equipment Humanity could muster, along with the best training of ANY regiment in the Inner Sphere. In addition, each and every one of them were graduates of the Gunslinger Programme, Which in Battletech is the equivalent of saying they are all pretty god-damn amazing at their job, and have spent their entire military career in Special Forces level training just for, Instances, like this. They had a Single Duty, which they took very, seriously. That duty was to protect the Royal Family. The Royal Family which Stephan Amaris had just decided to harm. When one of Stephan's idiot goon's managed to trip an alarm in the Throne Room and get vaporised in the process, the Black Watch was Alerted, Activated, and immediately went into battle." ---- Professor Randolph Percival Checkers Esquire, the Third, 3141.
My late Grandfather's photo hangs in my hall. Taken in Northern France in 1916, he looks so young, but must have witnessed things to cover several lifetimes. In 1926 he and my Grandmother emigrated to the USA where he had secured employment in Akron Ohio at the Goodyear factory oddly enough to play football [soccer] for their team as that was the route the USA had gone down in establishing the sport. By 1930 with the depression in full swing they returned to Scotland along with a 2 year old daughter [my Mother].
Simple History can you make a video about canadian regiments of british army in WW1 or 2? This one about scottish was very interesting. Ps: is the narrator the same person who spoke in intros of the old videogame "Civil war: secret missions"? Sounds very similar
“Twa recruiting sergeants cam fae the black watch, through markets an fairs some recruits for to catch, an aw that they listed wis forty an twa, enlist me Bonnie lady an come awa”
You skipped over an important point. The Black Watch was raised as a Gendarmerie for policing the "rebellious" Highlands, and that is the condition under which the men enlisted. The "crown" changed the rules, converted them to a standard infantry regiment for deployment overseas. Thereafter was the episode of "the mutiny" and the [illegal] transfer of the regiment to the Army. Sorry lads, that's what you get for backing an illegitimate monarch. Alba gu bràth!
They got their name because they were involved in the disarming of the Highlands, enforcing land confiscation, clearances of the inhabitants, dress code (lay people could no longer wear their tartan), punishment for playing pipe music and speaking Gaidhlig. Besides that period of history they were pretty awesome IMO. Great Video! 👍
They did that because that’s how people organised and tartan was a uniform, if you were fighting an enemy today and suddenly everyone started wearing that uniform it would be the same. There was no sort of ethnic cleansing particularly as the Black Watch were scots, wore kilts, played pipe music etc etc. All it was, was crushing rebellion, nothing sinister about it.
@@fod1855 they were the only ones allowed to wear kilts and play pipes. Tartan was culturally important, as was the language and music. It was not an ethnic cleansing, it was exactly what I stated, cultural destruction of the Highlands and Islands. And the people hated the watch for it and viewed them as traitors.
@@masem.2671 No they viewed them as traitors and hated them because they hated their deferring politics, Jacobite vs government, primarily out of bitterness. I've stated why they were the only ones allowed, it was never meant to be permanent and it wasn't, it was brief period tartan etc was outlawed. It can not be described as cultural destruction at all, it was a temporary measure brought in to prevent communication, gathering and potential uprising. A bit of a give away that it wasn't anything more than this when the Black watch did everything you're apparently saying they were trying to destroy.
It was mainly to try and stop the influence of nationalism from breaking apart the kingdom that took hundreds of years to finally unite less there be another civil war after peace took so long to achieve.
A wise bagpiper once said that the only parts that matter in a performance are making sure you start and stop together. Everything else is either scotland the brave or amazing grace
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The Germans called these Scottish soldiers “Die Damen aus der Hölle,” the "Ladies from Hell" in reference to kilts they wore and their bravery in combat.
Wow cool
AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH
You know why they're called "kilts"? Because they kilt the last person to call them skirts
They certainly were 😲😁🙄😜
@ThyPeasantSlayer aye am from Scotland. It’s finally nice to get some recognition init mate?
You may think you're cool if you did everything these guys did. But let me ask you, could you do everything they did _without pants?_
I can do it a loincloth
I think they would because of frostbite or something like that
Damn haven't seen you for a while
@@iainpaton1865
"Scott's", are they? Most ... unusual.🤔
What are pants?
My grandpa from Glasgow was a teenage soldier in the black watch, 5th Highland light infantry. He fought in the battle of the Somme and the battle of Ypres. I had chills watching this knowing more about what he must have gone through, just wish I could have met him.😔 He survived the war ranking as a regimental sergeant major, and died later as an old man long before I was born. So proud of my Scottish heritage and what he went through to give us our freedoms we have today.
I think my Great-Great Grandpa was in your infantry, he fought in the Somme and Ypres as well, they could've been friends!
Black watch and Highland light infantry were two serperate Scottish regiments. The Black watch recruited from Fife and Dundee while Highland light Infantry recruited from Glasgow. Both had fierce reputations in both world wars
my great uncle was in the blackwatch as well he lost his life in the war
Hail to the honored dead. May the enemy forever fear the sound of Bagpipes and the sight of Bearded Northmen wearing Kilts
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Black Watch (1739-2006) battle honours:
- Guadaloupe 1759, Martinique 1762, Havannah, North America 1763-64, Peninsula War, Waterloo 1815, Mysore, Busaco, Salamanca, South Africa 1846-47, Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt 1882 '84, Kirbekan, Nile 1884-85, Paardeberg, South Africa 1899-1902 (Boer War)
- World War 1: Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 '18, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Ypres 1914 '17 '18, Langemarck 1914, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Lys, Estaires, Messines 1918, Hazebrouck, Kemmel, Béthune, Scherpenberg, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Tardenois, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line 1918, Épéhy, St Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Doiran 1917, Macedonia 1915-18, Egypt 1916, Gaza, Jerusalem, Tell'Asur, Megiddo, Sharon, Damascus, Palestine 1917-18, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1915-17
- World War 2: Defence of Arras, Ypres-Comines Canal, Dunkirk 1940, Somme 1940, St. Valery-en-Caux, Saar, Breville, Odon, Fontenay le Pesnil, Defence of Rauray, Normandy 1944, Caen, Falaise, Falaise Road, La Vie Crossing, Le Havre, Lower Maas, Venlo Pocket, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Rhine 1945, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, Barkasan, British Somaliland 1940, Tobruk 1941, Tobruk Sortie, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Medenine, Zemlet el Lebene, Mareth, Akarit, Wadi Akarit East, Djebel Roumana, Medjez Plain, Si Mediene, Tunis, North Africa 1941-43, Landing in Sicily, Vizzini, Sferro, Gerbini, Adrano, Sferro Hills, Sicily 1943, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Advance to Florence, Monte Scalari, Casa Fortis, Rimini Line, Casa Fabbri Ridge, Savio Bridgehead, Italy 1944-45, Athens, Greece 1944-45, Crete, Heraklion, Middle East 1941, Burma 1944
- Post War: Korea 1952-53; Al Basrah, Iraq 2003; Second Battle of Fallujah, Iraq 2004
The Black Watch, although no longer a regiment, still exists today as the 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland (the Black Watch) and did two tours of Afghanistan in 2009 and 2011.
Lol, they fought at my hometown
the amalgamation of regiments was because Scotland has such a drug problem and being infected by their Scottish nationalist party, there was a dire shortage of recruits. many Scottish units are filled with soldiers from England and the Commonwealth .. many English regiments were also amalgamated in recent years despite plenty of recruits volunteering. if Scotland produced more young men seeking career in Army they would not be a singe regiment now. if the SNP got their way and broke away from UK they would not even have that! there were an awful lot of Scots in the RAF when i served in 1980's and 90's
@@coling3957 More power to the Scotts and Irish seeking independence from the Crown. You say “infected by their Scottish nationalist party” sounds like you’re bit by your own nationalism bug, you need to let other free men, especially your neighbors, be free to make their own decisions. As Americans we killed quite a few foolish Brit who came oversees just to enforce their corrupt king’s will. Nationalism and being a Conservative done with woke globalist nonsense IS THE ONLY SANE WAY TO GO FORWARD.
Prestigious, expected nothing less from the Scot’s
Also the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada (31 January 1862-Present) 🇨🇦
The Fenian Raids 1866-1871
5th Battalion, Volunteer Militia Rifles of Canada
The Second Boer War
The First World War 1914-1918 The Western Front
13th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force
42nd Battalion, 7th Brigade, 3rd Division, CEF
73rd Battalion, 12th Brigade, 4th Division, CEF
The Second World War 1939-1945 Western Front
Operation Jubilee, Normandy, Cean, Falaise, Channel Ports and The Scheldt, Battle of Neder Rijn (Dutch Rhine) and the Liberation of Holland.
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, 5th (Quebec) Infantry Brigade, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division
That horse at 1:15 has some good moves. It's moon walking there and a lot of people can't even do it.
Absolute chills watching this. As an American, I've always been fascinated with Scotland and the Scots in general, especially their fearsome fighting forces like the Black Watch. I was over the moon to visit back in 2009 both Edinburgh and the Highlands and meet so many amazing people in that proud country. Some of the nicest people in the world I've met yet.
As a Scot. If your familiar with Warhammer 40k. The Black Watch are somewhat like the Deathkorp of Krieg. A unit so devoted to combat that in the toughest of combat situation they Sally forth and rise victorious.
Keep an eye on the census data, who knows how long the Scots will still be around for
These are traitor Scots don't think of them as Scots!
@@Rybo-Senpai where do you think death korps get their inspiration?
@@Rybo-Senpai Drookian Fenguard and Finreht Highlanders maybe even the Preatorians to a degree. The Krieg are very obviously German inspired
One of my favorite units, thank you for covering them!!
The Canadian Black Watch also fought valiantly in both world wars and is deserving of recognition. To this day they are perpetuated by a reserve infantry unit based in Montreal.
Indeed they are, as brave and as mad as our lads also. They deserve their name and fought hard for our freedom. I salute you brave souls.
There are actually many highland regiments in Canada.
@@ferociousfil5747 Highland and Scottish. For example, the Canadian Scottish Regt on Vancouver Isle and the Toronto Scottish are not 'highland' per se. The highland regts do out number the Scottish ones, though.
@@lib556what's the difference between Scottish and Highlander?
@@mrtiesthatbind I won't pretend to be an expert but IIRC, highland units are historically associated with very specific, traditional regiments from the highland region as opposed to being generically Scottish. So, many of the original highland regiments have sister regiments in Canada. The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regt of Canada), the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders, the Gordon Highlanders, Cameron Highlanders, etc. We also have the non-highland Canadian Scottish Regt, the Toronto Sottish Regt, Lorne Scots... etc. Then there are specific Canadian highland regts associated with specific regions: Calgary Highlanders, Nova Scotia Highlanders, Highland Fusiliers etc...
I was born and raised in England, but Scots/Irish heritage. My Great Uncle was in the Black Watch and was killed at Dunkirk. We never knew what happened to his body, until we stumbled upon his grave in Northern France 15 years ago. The bravery of all these soldiers can never be forgotten.
Same ancestry, my uncle was Gordon Highlander, had never been North of Watford till then lol
@@jayturner3397 Highland regiments have more English these days
@@mrkitcatt2119 so I'm told mate too many fried Mars bars up there 😆 🤣
if you have irish heritage then you should know the black watch brutalized irish men, women, and children in the troubles and got their just due from the IRA.
@@mfvitt8000 I'm also aware of other regiments who brutalised the Irish and of the IRA atrocities against British civilians. We learn from the horrors of the past and honour those we know fought for our collective freedoms. It's the least we can do, short of getting angry on the internet.
I'm an Irish and British citizen and I know nobody is without blood on their hands.
Nice to see some strait up history of famous units, please make more they are quite simple but very enjoyable from it's own unique simple perspective
“Give ‘em steel boys! Give ‘em steel!”
- Unknown Scottish Soldier, 1805
“Hold the line Hold the Line”
"FREDERICK NO!!!!!"
@@turkaits731FREDERICK’S GONE, YOU ARE NEXT
My great grandfather was in this unit before immigrating to the states, Thank You for giving these brave men a stage on which people can be educated about them! Truly the bravest and highest class of men!
My great uncle is Lieutenant Colonel Fred Beattie of the 1st Black Watch, he was personal body guard of Queen Elizabeth II and an all round gent.
Sounds like a legend. And I know many a Scot who loved this Queen, who made Scotland her second home.
@@AndrewPonti well she was Scottish after all.
My great grandfather fought with the black watch in ww1. I believe he was captured.
@@fod1855 thought she was German
@@jtgd I think that was Elizabeth I.
Thanks for making this video! It makes me even more proud to be scottish
It makes me proud to be descended from one.
Me too! My Grandfather was in the black watch in ww2. At weddings etc I wear the black watch tartan kilt in memory of him and aye I'm Scottish lol
@@si-borg1500 Same.
@@si-borg1500 makes me proud, and I don’t have a recent scot ancestor
Proudly a son of a black watch man and am also scottish
No matter what anyone says despite them not being as good as they use to be the Blackwatch has to be one of the greatest regiments to ever live.
Well unfortunately they’re not even a regiment anymore, much of the standards of dropped too.
Far too many none Scots in the black watch now, makes them a lesser fighting force now...none of that Scottish 'COME AHEAD YA @*~@'
@Stanly Stud haha I can imagine, my dad was Black Watch and I'm in the process of joining the army but I'm avoiding the so called royal regiment of Scotland and probably going for the guards.
I got a request for a video. 2ENG during the Korean War. Engineers along with an Artillery Unit held the line near the 38th Parallel while everyone else had to retreat. They got surrounded and held out for 4 days before they had to burn the colors and flee into the jungle. Same 2E that earned "Devil Dog" status with the Marines in WW1. Wish they get more recognition.
Just watched the ceremony, very touching
I wish they got better recognition than being associated with a flimsy marine myth.
When you say burn the colors do you mean they burnt their own flags before retreating?
@@caesarsaladsempire Yes, They burned anything that the Enemy at that time could use against America and its Allies. They also destroyed there equipment making it unservicable for the Enemy. Same concept for every flagpole you see on Military Post or Gov Blg. Not far away is a buried box that holds a match razor and 1911. Shred and burn the flag and choose to off yourself or fight for a bit longer before that position is overwhelmed.
@@caesarsaladsempire what walo has said is pure myth and is sometimes used as a trick question on promotion boards to throw a curve as young soldiers. When we say burn their colors that means the units guidons and battle streamers.
My grandmother had two step-uncles from Glasgow, Scotland that served in WW1. I believe one served in the Black Watch while the other served in the Scots Guards.
When you’re a newly arrived German conscript and the eerily beautiful music of the pipes starts playing Johnny Cope on a misty morning.
As a young man I was told that 1 of my ancestors started the black watch. Lord Duncan Campbell. I never really knew anything else about them. This was very educational thank you.
If that is true, that would mean we are cousins.
I recently went to the Somme graves on a school trip, I saw lots of cordon highlanders and many black watch graves, lest we forget.
My great Grandfather served in the Black Watch as a lieutenant and was taken prisoner when the 51st Division surrendered at St Valery en Caux
The Black Watch is so Famouse that they are used in a Lot of Science Fiction as Well. They are used in Battletech for Example and where so Dedicated to Duty and Honor that they couldnt even be Killed Completly by Useing Nukes against them. They are a Legendary Regiment both in Real Life and in Fiction.
As a wise man once said, "To the Black Watch, nukes are merely inconvienient."
@@odstbag337 "However, Stefan had himself a fucking problem..."
@@56bturnstefan's little bit of a fucky wucky that shrugs off nukes.
A Canadian hack and his basement sl- dweller would say, I will face tank the sun@@odstbag337
Finally, some Scottish praise!
The Scottish Warrior Drew McIntyre
This guy 😂😂
Praising traitors to Scotland
@@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401 fake wrestler play fighting stfu
Proud to say my great great grandfather came from Fife served in the 7th battalion and survived the war
Loved this video, and hope one day you will cover the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders as another regiment of renown
same motto NEMO ME IMPUNE
I'm a Brit who lives in Sotogrande, southern Spain which is about 20 minutes away from Gibraltar. In Gibraltar there's a reenactment group which parades through main street dressed in Black Watch uniforms (red coats, kilts, fur skin hat and brown bess muskets)
I'm Canadian of Irish and Scottish descent so I love learning about this type of thing. I'd love to go to Scotland and Ireland some day. In my province Prince Edward Island and even the rest of Atlantic Canada you can still see so much Scottish/Irish influence on our culture to this day
Same man except I'm a newfie myself
@@Toro1990 My biological grandmother is from Newfoundland so I'm 1/4 Newfie lol
Scotland's heroes tried to join them a few years ago sadly couldn't but i will always remember and honor them as a clansman of campbell and a scotsman and i am glad we scots finally get some recognition
Us kiwis don't forget our commonwealth brothers cheers
Never trust a Campbell.
@@perpetualcowlick5678 just ask a Macdonald
@@tillerman7272my family talks about it long after we moved across the pond, and we're Ross clan.
@@tillerman7272 just ask a Buchan
Please do a video on the battle of Delville wood. As a South African it would be truly amazing to see our troops remembered on this channel.
Thanks..
I understand that the South Africans were part of the 9th Scottish Division ( nicknamed the Jocks and the Boks) and My Grandfather and two of his brothers (all in the 8th Battalion Black Watch (HIghland Cyclists))were also part of that Division .The three of them were farm workers before the war and my Grandfather was the only one to survive.One of their relatives joined the Natal Mounted Police just before the second Boer war kicked off and had been one of General Buller’s bodyguard.
Funnily enough, the Blackwatch would become fictional icons as well, due to Battletech.
Tex talks quite a bit about them but to give you an idea, the Blackwatch of Battletech is beyond legendary (on the tabletop, their piloting and gunnery skills are _0s_ not the 1-6 that usually applies and this number helps determine the 'target number' for a dice roll for an action). They were a 'Royal' Regiment of the Star League, and they were given the best equipment and training that (at the time) humanity could muster. When Stephen Amaris (aka BT Palpy) eliminated the entire Cameron dynasty in a coup, one of his goons accidentally tripped a failsafe alarm and got vaporized... which alerted the Blackwatch. The first responders were a mix of various infantry including jump-pack troops (who braved the automated anti-infantry weaponry (which Amaris managed to turn) of the palace to start breaching into the throne room) while the 'mechs started mobilizing. Quickly the infantry managed to get close enough that they could kill Amaris, who was at this time radioing his troops to reinforce him.
Amaris would send a few nukes at various Blackwatch bases, and particularly at Fort Cameron (aka Blackwatch HQ). Nine of these 'mechs would be outside of the blast radius and made their last stand in the nearby flats between Unity City and Pudget Sound. They stood between the Rim Worlds Republic 4th Dragoons and Unity City... and for several hours they _stopped the 4th Dragoons dead in their tracks_ (reducing the elite 4th Dragoons from a _regiment_ to a handful of battered _companies_ when it was all said and done). The 4th Dragoons managed to wither the ad-hoc unit to 5 'mechs before deciding to send units to pin the remainder down before sending _two_ tactical nukes on them...
... and _some of the Blackwatch survived_ all that, creating the resistance group 'Ghosts of the Blackwatch'... and depending who you ask kept Amaris up at night just by existing.
(PAY YOUR BILLS intensifies)
Now that is adding to a mythology, and then some.
A unit that loves whisky, murder, and bagpipes, but not in that order. Their favorite grenade is satchel charge and they're graduates of the Gunslinger program.
Nukes are merely inconvienent.
Nukes are merely an inconvenience.
in the Battletech sci fi lore, the black watch also had a role in the Amaris civil war as discussed in the videos from the Black pants legion channel.
*Nukes are merely a inconvenience*
@@electrohalo8798 👍🏻
Love the videos keep them up, I learned most of my history from you
Funny how I just bought a Black Watch kilt for this weekends Renaissance Fair, and then this pops up in my feed. Perfect!
You should look into the Gordon Highlanders, their motto "Bydand" is an adjective of the Scots phrase 'Bide and Fecht' meaning "Stay and Fight".
I learned of the Black Watch through Napoleon total war and Battletech. The Black Watch in Battletech are particularly noteworthy as they are a bunch of mad bastards who find nukes to be an inconvenience.
The Black Watch is a regiment second to none. I was proud to serve as one of them. - Nemo Me Impune Lacessit.
Well done Mate!
Ne Obliviscaris!
You guys should do a video in the Punitive expedition during the Mexican revolution or the Mexican revolution in general, is a very interesting and complicated event with historical events, such as the first combat use of the Airplane in the world.
Idk if they did the boxer rebellion
I went to Glasgow when I was younger and witnessed a few street fights, everyone of them occurred in front of a pub. They would be bleeding but smiling. You can tell they didn’t take it all that serious 😂 you don’t want to mess with these people lol. My family emigrated from Scotland to America in the 1700s. Clan Fletcher from Argyll
I came for the battletech blackwatch, I still have faint machine gun bag pipe PTSD nightmares
*bag pipe sounds in the distance*
My grandad was in the Canadian black watch during ww2
Nuclear weapons are merely inconvenient.
This man knows whats up
I was looking for this comment. 🙏🏾 IYKYK
I was looking for this comment! IYKYK 🙏🏾
As a history lover, this was very helpful
Thanks to simple history for giving me daily news❤️
Should definitely do a video like this for the "79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders!"
**German Soldier gets bayoneted**
Some British guy named Edward: “For the watch.”
I was going to say spoilers but to be fair who’s watching game of thrones after the dumpster fire that is house of dragon
Anyone else here do to Tex talks battletech and his stories of "The God Damn Black Watch!"
Kilts are amazingly cool looking
Twelve pipers left the Glasgow Military Piper's school for France with the Blackwatch, two came home.
good traitors to Scotland, If Brits wanna be Brits, then they should move out of Scotland!
My grandad was an Irish man from Cork. He served in the black watch regiment in the trenches and then settled in the North East of England after the great war . Sadly he died a year or so before I was born in the 1960s.
This video fills me with pride as a veteran of the regiment god bless Scotland and god save the king 🇬🇧
El chapo was Scottish? Ill be damned
@@Small_mac31 well Edinburgh is the cocaine capital of Europe so only makes sense really.
@@Boredandscrolling thank God it's not Glasgow lmao
@@Small_mac31 yeah nah that is/was just the murder/violence capital of Europe!
Your inbreed king aye??? Lizzy in a box 🤣🤣🤣🤣
5:22 it's weird hearing my hometown and neighbouring locations get read out as they are usually looked over by everyone
my favorite thing about scots is that they have a specific dude who just plays the bagpipes in the most intense enviroment
You say "bagpipes". I say Area Denial Weapon.
The retreat from Mons "we're here because we're here because we're here because we're here"
The locals towns i live in and nearby have photos of the Scottish regiments before and after WW1. Its really heartwrenching to see some photos with 300 troops reduced to less than 20. For the little villages, they never did recover populations.
Scotland suffered the most of any country in World War One in terms of population
The Scottish infantry, there is no finer a band of fighting men.
Nay lad that's a crock. Go fight a Gurkha
@@c.9900 Gurkhas and Scot’s have fought side by side for 200+ years. In 1949 the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) were affiliated officially with 7th Gurkha Rifles and to mark the occasion the Regiment asked that the 7th Gurkhas should wear their tartan - the Douglas.
The Douglas tartan is worn to this day by soldiers of The Royal Gurkha Rifles and is just one example of Gurkha regiments wearing tartan to honour connections to Scottish comrades.
Angry Scottish bagpipes resonate even in Battletech.
I’m from Dundee so it would be my local regiment they got a nice museum I would definitely recommend it
I am actually in the SD&G highlanders we are close to the blackwatch and the other several scottish units in canada search up each of these units in canada and you can see Battle honors and our pride cheers and up the Glens.
I can only imagine how bone chilling bag pipes would be in battle
i think that's the whole idea - to encourage the scots going into battle and to frighten the life out of the enemy !
My great great grandfather was part of the 4th/5th who fought in the 3rd battle of Ypres. He was originally part of the Scottish Horse Regiment but after that was dismounted he became part of the Black Watch. He has no known grave as during a heavy bombardment while trying to reach an objective called Tower Hamlets, 32 of the 37 killed that day were blown to pieces. Very proud of my heritage, and have visited Tynecot memorial where his name is immortalised.
Being Scottish and watching this video brought a smile to my face 😊😊🏴🏴
@black serpent too right my friend
You ain't no real Scot if you think a video on traitors is a good thing.... Stop using that saltire Brit
@black serpent real Scots ain't proud of these traitors to Scotland
@@ScotsmanGamer rest assured I am just as proud to be British as I am Scottish and how exactly are the Black Watch traitors?
@@bobSCOTT99 no REAL scot would ever consider themselves a Brit..... Move to your overlords in England or any other member of the UK... How they traitors learn your history 🤡
Please do a video like this about the Royal Irish Rifles.
Bagpiper: +10 to accuracy to all the allies within range.
Doubtful. If anything, I'd say it gives them a charge or melee bonus. Not that they AREN'T crack shots, but when you hear the pipes, you can't tell me you don't have the urge to charge screaming at the enemy and introduce him to whatever god he worships in a very personal manner!
You can never be careful enough around bagpipes. You can easily put out an aye. Or worse, get kilt!
They fought in Crete and at Tobruk in 41,greatly feared by the enemy
Nukes are merely inconvenient. Men too angry to die. Hobbies include whiskey, bagpipes, and murder, not necessarily in that order.
By the time you hear the bagpipes blaring and the battlecries ..... it's already too late for you to retreat .
As an ex 1st BN soldier of the Black Watch, this is a great video to see. And most of it was correct, well done!
Yeah! I would love to see more on Scottish regiments!
'And the Piper stood, in the line of fire, and played them o'er the top'
The Scottish Canadian Celtic punk band the Real Mckenzies has a lot of songs about Scottish and Canadian regiments and war heroes. They have a couple songs about this
Love the real McKenzie's good music and historical
My ancestor Robert Nicholson was in the 8th battalion in WW1 and this video helped me understand what the conditions he fought through were like.
Oh look, it's the graduates of the Gunslinger program. They drive their General Motors into battle and nukes are merely inconvenient to them.
Ten points for Gryffindor if you get the reference.
Keeping Amaris up at night since 2766.
@@stevensdefenseacademyllc7898 Until they gave him the forever sleep.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR DOING THIS!!!
Scottish people are born fighters. It’s in their DNA. Truly there is no better infantry unit than the Scots. And I’m not even Scottish
Born in England, raised in the US, my grandmother was from Belfast, and another was Edinburgh...my Irish and English family always said the Scots were the most nuts and hardest of the lot. We're from the Gordan Clan btw.
36th Ulster Division would be a great addition. Made up of UVF men that was created to fight against Irish Home Rule to join the ranks 3 regiments in the Division on the outbreak of WWI. To be the only British Division to gain all objectives at the Somme 1st July 1916, and King Edward claiming they were the finest men he ever seen in 1915 just before they left for France. A Division close to Northern Ireland's heart and to mine due to a few family members being in it
good shout
Home rule is coming again when a United Ireland is about to become a reality
Proddy bastarts lol (a joke)
a soldier played Bagpipes song "Scotland The Brave" makes this video Great!
For King and country 🇬🇧🇬🇧
@Sway to to the ze Scotland is in 🇬🇧???
A veteran of the great war called Alfred Anderson who was born in 1899 and died in 2003. He served in the black watch and fought in the trenches. Watch his video on TH-cam when he tells his story.
Guys can you do one on the obscure story of the 40th Army Band? Their troopship was torpedoed and they lost their instruments and so went ashore and fought as a separate infantry platoon in the Philippines, every member receiving a combination of purple hearts and bronze and silver stars.
that's a neat story
My grandpa, Willie Ross, joined the Royal Highland Regiment, AKA The Black Watch in February 1914 just a month or two after his 18th birthday and six months before the outbreak of war. Although badly wounded in action he survived the war but died in 1923 aged just 27, leaving my grannie to raise two bairns on just an army widow’s pension.
"Let me tell you about the Black Watch...
The Black Watch or 191st Royal Battlemech Division could trace it's lineage back to Ancient Scotland of Terra, in 1725 as a volunteer militia for the purposes of keeping watch for crime. By the 28th Century, they had significantly evolved. In the purest terms, The Black Watch was no joke; they were not a parade unit. They were not a Propaganda piece to scare people into leaving the Royal Family alone, and they did not idly bask in their Royal Regiment status. They were the chosen protectors of House Cameron, and thus, the First Family of Star League.
The Black Watch was not a Bauble or a Plaything. They were a ruthlessly loyal fighting force dedicated to their duty. They were a hardened group of war-fighting experts given the finest equipment Humanity could muster, along with the best training of ANY regiment in the Inner Sphere. In addition, each and every one of them were graduates of the Gunslinger Programme, Which in Battletech is the equivalent of saying they are all pretty god-damn amazing at their job, and have spent their entire military career in Special Forces level training just for, Instances, like this.
They had a Single Duty, which they took very, seriously. That duty was to protect the Royal Family. The Royal Family which Stephan Amaris had just decided to harm. When one of Stephan's idiot goon's managed to trip an alarm in the Throne Room and get vaporised in the process, the Black Watch was Alerted, Activated, and immediately went into battle."
---- Professor Randolph Percival Checkers Esquire, the Third, 3141.
Traitors to Scotland that is all you had to say!
Nothing Like a bunch of Scott's Freeballin across No man's land!
Imagine getting bayonet charged by a screaming man in a skirt and the last thing you hear is Scotland forever.
It’s called a kilt tadger
@@JamieRodger1 I am aware.
You mean scotland the brave? "Scotland forever" is just a more recent set of lyrics to it, written by John MacDermott
@@bowenault6166 I was talking the ear rape version.
You know the one with the mangled static voice
Great video! I just started to catch on to how much of Battletech/Mechwarrior lore is based off WWI..
Hearing this story makes me feel a connection to my ancestors. Scotland the Brave!!
My late Grandfather's photo hangs in my hall. Taken in Northern France in 1916, he looks so young, but must have witnessed things to cover several lifetimes. In 1926 he and my Grandmother emigrated to the USA where he had secured employment in Akron Ohio at the Goodyear factory oddly enough to play football [soccer] for their team as that was the route the USA had gone down in establishing the sport. By 1930 with the depression in full swing they returned to Scotland along with a 2 year old daughter [my Mother].
May all of those brave Scottish men rest in peace with they're honorable deaths
Respect for the brave Scots from Greece.
🏴✌️🇬🇷
6:40
That german soldier took the "fighting till the afterlife" too serious that his rifle shoot by itself.
Simple History can you make a video about canadian regiments of british army in WW1 or 2? This one about scottish was very interesting.
Ps: is the narrator the same person who spoke in intros of the old videogame "Civil war: secret missions"? Sounds very similar
Excellent video as always. Good job.
Blackwatch is famous in futuristic fiction too. Battletech! Too angry to die, tactical nukes are an inconvenience.
There is also a hat in team fortress 2 for the demoman named the black watch
“Twa recruiting sergeants cam fae the black watch, through markets an fairs some recruits for to catch, an aw that they listed wis forty an twa, enlist me Bonnie lady an come awa”
“War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other.” Niko Bellic
For '...old and bitter ..' you can just substitute politicians.
You skipped over an important point. The Black Watch was raised as a Gendarmerie for policing the "rebellious" Highlands, and that is the condition under which the men enlisted. The "crown" changed the rules, converted them to a standard infantry regiment for deployment overseas. Thereafter was the episode of "the mutiny" and the [illegal] transfer of the regiment to the Army. Sorry lads, that's what you get for backing an illegitimate monarch. Alba gu bràth!
They got their name because they were involved in the disarming of the Highlands, enforcing land confiscation, clearances of the inhabitants, dress code (lay people could no longer wear their tartan), punishment for playing pipe music and speaking Gaidhlig. Besides that period of history they were pretty awesome IMO. Great Video! 👍
They did that because that’s how people organised and tartan was a uniform, if you were fighting an enemy today and suddenly everyone started wearing that uniform it would be the same. There was no sort of ethnic cleansing particularly as the Black Watch were scots, wore kilts, played pipe music etc etc. All it was, was crushing rebellion, nothing sinister about it.
@@fod1855 they were the only ones allowed to wear kilts and play pipes. Tartan was culturally important, as was the language and music. It was not an ethnic cleansing, it was exactly what I stated, cultural destruction of the Highlands and Islands. And the people hated the watch for it and viewed them as traitors.
@@masem.2671 No they viewed them as traitors and hated them because they hated their deferring politics, Jacobite vs government, primarily out of bitterness. I've stated why they were the only ones allowed, it was never meant to be permanent and it wasn't, it was brief period tartan etc was outlawed. It can not be described as cultural destruction at all, it was a temporary measure brought in to prevent communication, gathering and potential uprising. A bit of a give away that it wasn't anything more than this when the Black watch did everything you're apparently saying they were trying to destroy.
It was mainly to try and stop the influence of nationalism from breaking apart the kingdom that took hundreds of years to finally unite less there be another civil war after peace took so long to achieve.
@@fod1855 Very well said!
Great video I’ve been waiting for this for ages!
Q. How can you tell if a bagpipe is out of tune?
A. You can't.
A wise bagpiper once said that the only parts that matter in a performance are making sure you start and stop together. Everything else is either scotland the brave or amazing grace
"Nukes are merely inconvenient." ~Tex