St. Andrew's Day

[macwilkin]

For St. Andrews.....our annual Regimental banquet with haggis, cockaleekie soup, neeps and tatties, and a full menu of other correct 18th century fare. Many, many toasts. All this held at the 18th century tavern here in Dillsburg, PA. Some of us will even make a long evening of it and spend the night in the old tavern. We have 42 attending, all in correct 18th century attire, the men required to be in uniform of either the 77th Reg't of Foote Grenadiers, or the 42nd RHR Grenadiers. Take a look at last year's photos of the fun and frivolity. The avatar I use for this forum is the St. Andrew's banquet three years ago as I raise a toast.

http://musketsofthecrown.homestead.c...StAndrews.html

By the way, the St. Andrew's evening dates back hundreds of years for Highland regiments, as evidenced by John Peebles' diary during the American Revolution (Peebles was Capt. of the 42nd RHR Grenadier Company). He writes each year of the evening's commemoration of the feast day for St. Andrew, and even mentioned number of bottles of port, whisky, etc. that were consumed!

Yours,

Malcolm MacWm.

Malcolm,

Do you have the bibliographic info for Peebles Diary? I'd like to try to find a copy of that via ILL.

T.

[Malcolm MacWilliam]

Malcolm,

Do you have the bibliographic info for Peebles Diary? I'd like to try to find a copy of that via ILL.

T.

Sure, it's called John Peeble's American War by Ira Gruber....don't have the other info here in front of me, but it should be in print.....Gruber compiled and commented on the diary entries in about 1998.....I think it's the best kept diary of a soldier in the Rev. War, although Joseph Plumb Martin's "Yankee Doodle" is also excellent but on a different scale.

Malcolm

[macwilkin]

Sure, it's called John Peeble's American War by Ira Gruber....don't have the other info here in front of me, but it should be in print.....Gruber compiled and commented on the diary entries in about 1998.....I think it's the best kept diary of a soldier in the Rev. War, although Joseph Plumb Martin's "Yankee Doodle" is also excellent but on a different scale.

Malcolm

That's all I needed...the ILL request has already been turned in.

T.