Originally Posted by
Redshank
Well, I thought maybe the historians amongst us would have come up with some answers by now ?
To be honest the only thing I ever came up with is the Stuart Reid quote that HarborSpringsPiper posted above.
I looked in my copy of Sons of the Mountains: the Highland Regiments in the French & Indian War, 1756-1767 Vol.II by Ian Macpherson McCulloch to see what he might have in the section on headgear, and the only comments I could find were: "Loose tufts of wool left in the center were twisted into tiny balls, but at a fairly early stage a decorative ball known as a "tourie" was added."
Sorry I couldn't find more, perhaps someone else will.
[SIZE="2"][FONT="Georgia"][COLOR="DarkGreen"][B][I]T. E. ("TERRY") HOLMES[/I][/B][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
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