Perhaps I can remind him that when my two relatives, the cousins Major Donald MacDonald and brevet Major Dugald Campbell, led the day-saving charge of the Gordon Highlanders at the Battle of Waterloo (when their 200 men from Brae Lochaber put to flight a 3000-strong column of Napoleon's elite guards), the battle cry which they exchanged with the Scots Greys as they thundered past to complete the rout, was "Scotland forever".
"Scotland forever" was the Napoleonic battle cry of my relatives, Major MacDonald and brevet Major Campbell
I note that Bonaparte is prayed in aid by Richard Mowbray (Letters, February 22).
Perhaps I can remind him that when my two relatives, the cousins Major Donald MacDonald and brevet Major Dugald Campbell, led the day-saving charge of the Gordon Highlanders at the Battle of Waterloo (when their 200 men from Brae Lochaber put to flight a 3000-strong column of Napoleon's elite guards), the battle cry which they exchanged with the Scots Greys as they thundered past to complete the rout, was "Scotland forever".
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Don't show me this again.