"Waterloo Podcast - Cameron Highlanders" Topic

New episode of Waterloo podcast out today – The Cameron Highlanders YouTube link

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The infantry Company with the worst casualty rate in Wellington's army!
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These are excellent, not sure it's helped but but dropped the links at another Napoleonic site.

Two things paying attention to with these and other podcasts. Deaths in combat and here especially surviving wounds before the age of modern medicine.

I would have put big money on the Inniskillings for worst casualty rate, but am happy to be proved wrong

The previous podcast indicated that the traditional image of the 27th lying dead in square might have been overstated.

Brilliant as always! FWIW, "Cogadh no Sith" means "War or Peace" and was a well-known piobaireachd (supposedly centuries old). Most of the famous marches and pipe tunes we associate with the Highland and Lowland Regiments were still some years away.

I will look forward to his eventual coverage of the 27th and Lambert's Brigade before I concede a lost bet!

I have read first-hand accounts of pipers playing "Johnnie Cope" at Waterloo, so there were definitely things beyond piobaireachd to be heard. You can't really march to it; when the 92nd Highlanders behind their pipers marched out of Brussels it was likely to what we'd think of as "marches" in modern pipe music. Played as medleys, and I'm not convinced that the drummers didn't play along even then -- it only took another generation for this to be institutionalized across the British Army, when pipe bands were officially recognized and provided for by regulations.

PS: "Johnnie Cope" (the reference is to the battle of Prestonpans in 1745, subject of a mocking song by the Jacobites at the expense of the losing English general) is traditionally played as a reveille tune in Scottish regiments (in various settings, and sometimes part of a longer medley). A very rousing march.