TheBoberton
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A. Protokletos said:I DID IT! Loch Moigh! Alba gu bràth!
3éme Régiment de Grenadiers à Pied de la Garde Impériale
"Les Gardes Écossais"
(Sergent, 1er Bataillon, après-1815 uniforme)
The 3rd Regiment of Guard Grenadiers was founded after the end of the long War of the Seventh Coalition. While Napoleon repeatedly defeated the Coalition forces on the mainland, the Irish Legion crossed the Channel and landed in Ireland, losing almost three-quarters of their men and supplies to the Royal Navy. However, the Legion soon found that there was an overabundance of young Irish men eager to free their country and kill Englishmen, so that in three weeks the Legion was actually stronger than it had been before they embarked. The campaign that followed was reminiscent of Napoleon's Italian Campaign. Major Hugh Ware led his ragtag army to victory after victory as the Irish easily overpowered the British garrisons and yeomanry. Once the island was liberated, it was a simple matter to cross over into Scotland as the British military suddenly found that every Irishman in their employ began using their weapons in the service of their homeland.
Upon landing in Scotland, Ware contacted every Jacobite clan he could, asking them to rise up and join him in liberating their country. Immediately, bagpipes began their wild, skirling tunes as the clansmen seized whatever weapons they could find and rallied to their chiefs. The first to join Ware were the clans of the Chattan Confederation; Clan Clan Mackintosh, Clan Macpherson, Clan Davidson, Clan Farquharson, Clan MacBain, Clan MacGillivray, Clan Macintyre of Badenoch, Clan MacLean of Dochgarroch, Clan MacPhail, Clan MacQueen, Clan MacThomas, Clan Shaw, and Clan Cattanach. The liberation of Scotland followed the same route as the liberation of Ireland, although at a slower pace. By this point the Welsh and Cornish had also begun their own uprisings, and suddenly all the Celtic nations of the British Isles had declared war on their English oppressors.
Once the war was over and a peace treaty had secured the independence of the Celtic nations (from London, anyway), Napoleon asked that each provide a regiment of infantry or cavalry to serve in his reorganized Imperial Guard. The Scots formed the grenadier companies of the Black Watch and other Highland regiments who had formerly served King George III into the 2nd Regiment of Grenadiers.
It's... so beautiful..
And the history you have there is logically thought out, and would likely have happened, had the Irish Legion/3eme Etrangers landed in Ireland.