The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-29

They were at the first taking of the Cane
OF Good Hope, in 1885. with Arthur welles-
ley at Assaye and Argaum; in Sicily at
the battle OF MAZDA; in walcheren with
the luckless Earl OF Chatham. They
missed both the Peninsula and Waterloo.
ana II Is curious fact that their lines
were more often cast in the East than
the West, and whether in Persia or in
Central India, at Lucknow or in Afghan.
istan. they were always conspicuous.
Botb Noted for Deeds of Great Valo,.
II there was any jealousy at the outset
between the battalions linked together by
the territorial scheme. IL has long since
been effaced by the newer glories 90 Of
ten gained by one or both of the part
ners In the new name. Thus the Cor
don" Highlanders. which was composed
OF the old Seventy-fifth or Stirlingshire
regiment. and the Ninety-second. High
land regiment" have since become IA
nous together. Yet both brought an equal
dowry of great deeds TO the union. The
Seventy-hfth, the elder corps, was raised
IN lls7, and wore the kilt until 1907 when
1t was discarded under superior orders.
10 be only resumed in 1882. In its early
NE the Seventy-fifth won distinction In
India, making the whole OF the campaign
against Tippoo Sahib. arc taking a lead
ing part in the storming of Seringapatam.
Long years Of inactivity followed. broken
only by trifling Kaffir war in 1895, until
the Sepoy mutiny convuised India, and
they Joined successfully in the siege and
reduction of Delhi and IN Colin Campbeirs
march to relieve Lucknow Another Kaf-
FIR war in 1872. then the campaign OF Tel
ei kebir, when. once more as killed High
landers. the Seventy-fifth shared with the
Camerons the sharpest part Of the at
tack. Later, In the still more strenuous
hghtfng on the Suakim side, they did
nobly at FL Teb Tamaf and TamanieI.
The prowess OF the First Gortons culrni-
mated In their splendid performance Mt
Dargai. feat too recent to need more
tnan a brief reference. II will suffice to
say that they scaled and captured an al
most inaccessible mountain position I'M
der murderous fire, urged on by the he-
roic leadership OF the colonel. Matthias.
and the music OF the wounded piper,
Findlater. Now recently this same bat
TALON has been employed under Lord
Roberts In the successful advance into
the Orange Free State.
Duchess Kisses for Recruits.
Tho Second battalion OF the Gordons,
long distinguished as the Ninety-second
Hishlanders. was raised by the Duke Of
that Tx, and not little by his duchess,
beautiful woman, who, to stimulate re-
cruitlng. did not hesitate to place the
bounty between her lips and offer a kiss
as guerdon for enlistment In the regiment
which her son. the Marquis OF Huntly
was named to command. II was killed.
ever gorgeous. with all the appurtenances
rolisnSEhs 'th s 1f2sS s: Soon after its en-
raltsr to be drilled and properly organ
ized, after which for some years II was
engaged In Mediterranean service. One
OF the earliest occasions on which II saw
active service was in Flanders under the
Duke OF York In 1895. and In that cam
paign at Egmontop Zee II had the honor
OF actually crossing bayonets with the
French. fighting hand to hand. and so
close that some OF the supernumerary or
third rank of Higbianders were bayon-
eted. Nevertheless the enemy could not
stand their ground.
This was the first OF many conflicts be-
tween the Gordon Highlanders. as they
were now called. and the French. The
struggle was continued In Egypt. and
presently almost without intermission In
Spain and Portugal. To recount Its serv-
ices during the Peninsula war would be
10 rewrite the history OF that arduous
and protracted struggle. but the Gordons
were engaged In all the principal battles
and siogcs, and no better account of its
dolngs IL extant than Is TO be found In
James Grants famous military novel, the
Romance OF War" The surprise of tho
fortress of Aimarar. as therein told. Is a
real feat which the Ninety-second per
formed and as the reward TX pears the
name on its colors and appointments
They greatly distinguished themselves at
salamanca, vittoria, IN the Pyrenees.
especially at Maya. where the colonel.
| Cameron tof Passifeml earned the dis
tlnetion of bearing tho word Maya on his
coat-of-arms and the historian has ro-
! corded thai ''the stern valor OF the Nine
ty-second would have graced Their
| mopylae So dreadful was the
! slaughter. especially Of tho Ninety second.
| that the advancing enemy was actually
stopped by the heaped mass at dead and
F.. dying" At the end OF the fght a captain
/ was "a command OF the regiment which