A French gentleman's Jacobite Rosette

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Stuart Reid, in The Scottish Jacobite Army 1745-46, quotes the transcript of the trial of Lt. William Oliphant, in which a witness said that Oliphant was wearing the uniform of officers of Drummonds' regiment, complete with "blue bonnets and white cockades" when captured at Culloden. (p. 62-63).

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Stuart Reed, in (18th Century Highlanders), states, "A 1750 watercolour shows that they were by that time wearing the French infantryman's ordinary long-skirted justacorps coat ans cocked hat; but in 1746, according to depositions and trial evidence, particularly relating to Drummond himself and to an officer named Oliphant, they wore hip-length Scots-style jackets and blue bonnets." The Grenadiers are particularly remarked upon in army lists and memorirs as wearing plaids in the Drummomd sett. (p. 35)