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Fi	Origins: Regiment - Orange and Blue (4)	Origins: Regiment - Orange and Blue	19 Oct 03
Hi there - Looking for the origins of the song The Blue Cockade. The song also appears as the White Cockade, but in the blue cockade the reference is "now I'm forced to go and join the orange and the blue". Various suggestions have been made that this might have something to do with William of Orange or the lowlands in general. The only regiment I can find on the web with Orange and blue mentioned is a Prussian one, however the song also refers to five guineas and a crown suggesting some UK element - but is this just an angilicisation of the lyrics???? anyone found an answer for this? Thanks Fi

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