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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 4665812" data-attributes="member: 1131">Greetings!My apologies, then, my friend. I mistakenly conflated the oftentimes mercenary attitudes and customs of many Scottish warriors seeking service within the ranks of the English/British Empire from roughly the period of 1300-1800. From what I have studied, it was a fairly common practice for many Scottish warriors to sign on with the English--and later British--as a way of gaining not merely a skill or profession--but as a source of income from which they would send coin back to the impoverished families living in the countryside. The political dimensions varied of course between generations and eras--as many Scottish warriors so serving clearly and often had no special love for the Enlgish--or British Empire, but rather, saw their service in strictly utilitarian terms of being able to provide a better life for their families back home. Furthermore, it is my understanding that this trend became such a popular avenue of improving their lives, that because so many Scottish warriors sought such service under the English Crown that the British Empire formed the Scottish Highlander Regiments, from which they subsequently became historically famous as ferocious shock troops of the empire.Again, though, my apologies for my misunderstanding. As a historian, I freely admit--my knowledge is much less precise after...about 1500 AD.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Semper Fidelis,SHARK</blockquote>

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