In a message dated 12/11/99 6:17:23 PM Central Standard Time, wlockhart@brooksdata.net writes: << These Ulster Scots were highly motivated to join George Washington, when the latter and cohorts decided to take on the mightiest army on the globe, the "English Army", and sever ties with Hanoverian Britain. The Hanoverians could have stopped this by allowing gentlemen like, Mr. Washington, into polite English society. >> It was not The English Army, It was the british Army. The Kings Army. Which included Irish, Welsh Scottish English and Highland, as well as the famed Immigent Regiments. The reason I act so strongly to this remark is that we of the United Kingdom but not of English birth, are very quick to agree that it was the bloody sodding English who dominated India, ripped off the West Indies, Imerial Bastards everyone of those bloody Limie sodders. We have all decicated ourselves here to, if nothing else, being honest with ourseland a fact we Brits have to face is that we were Proudly Marching along and building an empire because it was dam good for us too. As for the American war of independence and Mr. Washington, not knowing what America would become, it just was not worth removing resources from Flanders to win back a colony that they could take back later. and I think you will find that as in Culloden, about as many Colonists wanted to stay with King George as were forced to rebel. Dave Oh and the Alamo, to which I had the privlidge to be invited to celebrate the First Scottish day to be celebrated in America, (Their Decloration having been taken from Our Decloration of Abroth April 06 1320) It was John MacGregor who played the pipes as the Mexicans attacked, and if you check the names at the Alamo, you will find over 85% were either directly from or decendents of scots.