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Anthropology

gladium et scutum

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1. Old memories still live on

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Mar 20, 2018, 05:53 AM

Mar 2018

I played in a bagpipe band many years ago. When the pipe major called us to play "The Campbells are Coming", he would then say "MacDonald's, stand fast." That meant that any MacDonald pipers did not have to play that tune. The majority of British soldiers that participated in the Glencoe massacre were from Clan Campbell.

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