The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #51259   Message #785039
Posted By: Teribus
16-Sep-02 - 09:17 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Over the Hills and Far Away / O'er the...
Subject: RE: O'er the Hills
I'd go along with what Malcolm says above, as dated to the War of the Spanish Succession the Black Watch did not exist - they were formed in 1719 as a single battalion regiment initially tasked with assisting General Wade's road building programme after the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion.

The Rochester Recruit song to the tune of Waltzing Matilda, I have been told is fairly new.