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28th August 12, 06:48 PM
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Both the Argyll Militia (commanded by LtCol John Campbell and wearing their everyday civilian Highland dress) and elements of both the 43rd Highlanders (Black Watch) and Lord Loudon's Regiment (then the 64th Regiment of the Line, raised 1745 and disbanded 1748 after having fought in Flanders) were on the field of Culloden. Lord Loudon's Regiment was a Highland Regiment enlisted as regulars in the British Army, and were clothed and armed similarly to the more senior Black Watch, except that Loudon's Regiment's red coats had white facings and the Other Ranks, at least, wore a slightly modified version of the Black Watch's Government tartan (the officers may have worn red tartans to show off their social status - a portrait of Lord Loudon exists depicting him as an officer of his regiment, but wearing the red Murray of Tullabardine tartan). Lord Loudon's men would have been armed with the standard government musket, with swords, dirks and so forth, whereas the Argyll Militia's Campbell clansmen would have brought their own edged weapons - a government musket was displayed at the Culloden "Swords and the Sorrows" exhibit that was engraved "Argyll Militia", so all or some of the clansmen may have had these, too. Loudon's Regiment would have worn in their bonnets the standard black cockade of the British Army, whereas the Campbell militiamen would have worn the bog myrtle plant sign and possibly a cockade unique to the Campbells.
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