* Highland charge

At first, the French drove the British-Portuguese back under immense pressure, but a charge that included men of the 71st Highland Light Infantry reclaimed the streets and buildings lost earlier in the day.

* Highland charge

Displays include the history of the regiments, their links to the clans, the Highland charge, Sergeant Alexander Edwards and other notable regimental members, and the regiments ' activities in different conflicts.

After quickly returning fire, they pursued their foes, screaming in the Highland charge.

David Morier's painting Battle of Culloden | Culloden shows the highlanders still wearing the kilt | plaids which they normally set aside before battle, where they would fire a volley then run full tilt at the enemy with broadsword and targe in the " Highland charge " wearing only their shirts.

The seemingly suicidal Highland sword charge against cannon and muskets had succeeded when launched against unprepared or disordered troops in earlier battles but failed now that it was pitted against regulars who had time to form their ranks properly.

These locally raised levies frequently ran away when faced with a terrifying Highland charge, and were slaughtered as they ran.

Mac Colla has been credited with inventing the tactic of the Highland charge in the Civil Wars-where his men ran at enemy infantry, fired a volley at close range and then closed hand to hand.

The Jacobites, outnumbering the Cameronians four to one, stormed into attack from all sides-but in the narrow, winding streets there was no room for this type of Highland charge that succeeded in Killiecrankie.

David Morier's painting " Battle of Culloden | Culloden " depicts the Highland charge in 1746.

The Highland charge was a battlefield shock tactic used by the clans of the Scottish Highlands which incorporated the use of firearms.

Scottish-Irish warrior Alasdair MacColla is sometimes credited with inventing the Highland charge during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms to meet a particular set of battlefield challenges.

Once the ring bayonet was adopted the Highland charge became similar to other shock tactics as its effectiveness then lay in the psychological impact of the rush of screaming Highlanders on the discipline of troops in the opposing unit ; if troops reacted as panicked individuals the Highlanders could cut them down with impunity.

The final and least successful use of the Highland charge was in 1746 during the final confrontation of the 1745 Jacobite Rising, the Battle of Culloden.

The body is based in Inverness, Highland, and is in charge of the rules of the game.

U. S. 20 had been routed down Villa Street, Highland Avenue and Larkin Avenue through downtown Elgin.

The choice of a small islet as a home may seem odd today, yet waterways were the main channels for both communication and travel until the 19th century in much of Ireland and especially Highland Scotland.

The major result of these changes were the Highland Clearances, by which much of the population of the Highlands suffered forced displacement as lands were enclosed, principally so that they could be used for sheep farming.

The Highland MP and antiquarian, Charles Fraser-Mackintosh, comments on late eighteenth century evictions in the area of Kingussie, in his second series of " Antiquarian Notes " ( Inverness 1897, pp 369 et seq, public domain ) as follows: " Mr James MacPherson of Ossianic fame, who acquired Phoiness, Etterish, and Invernahaven, began this wretched business and did it so thoroughly that not much remained for his successors ....... Every place James MacPherson acquired was cleared, and he also had a craze for changing and obliterating the old names ......

The Visit of King George IV to Scotland in 1822 and the subsequent rise in tartanry did much to reinvigorate a sense of a specifically Scottish national identity, which had been split between the Episcopalian and Roman Catholic-dominated Highlands and the Presbyterian-dominated Lowlands since the Glorious Revolution in 1688, and continued during the 18th century through the Jacobite risings, the Act of Proscription and subsequent process of Highland Clearances by landlords.

Clark was born in Madison Barracks, Sackets Harbor, New York, but spent much of his youth in Highland Park, Illinois, while his father, a career Infantry officer, was stationed at Fort Sheridan.

Official routine now occupied much of his time, but he found opportunity for the Highland researches just alluded to, and also for preparing successive editions of his work Siluria ( 1854, ed.

The 1st Duke and Duchess of Sutherland remain controversial for their role in the Highland Clearances, when thousands of crofters were removed forcibly from their land so as to allow sheep rearing on a much larger scale than before.

The new proprietor sent half a dozen boatloads of " vagabondis, broken Highland men of Caithness " to Eday, much to the alarm of the notorious Earl Patrick of Orkney.

Sadly the population today is much diminished ; the whole of the Durness area suffered greatly from the Highland Clearances, the first in 1819 and thereafter throughout the greater part of the 19th century until the Crofting Act of the 1886 finally gave crofters a measure of security of tenure.

In 1884 protest action was much more widespread, many thousands of crofters became members of the Highland Land League and among MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1885 there were Crofters ' Party MPs elected by the constituencies of Argyllshire ( Donald Horne Macfarlane ), Inverness-shire ( Charles Fraser-Mackintosh ), Ross and Cromarty ( Roderick Macdonald ) and Caithness ( Gavin Brown Clark ).

The district covers most of the city of Dayton and includes most of Montgomery County, much of Warren County, and is home to all of Highland and Clinton Counties.

After much preliminary work over the previous 12 months, April 2007 saw the purchase of RAF Saxa Vord's Domestic Site, plus the road up to the Mid Site, by Military Asset Management ( MAM ), a company owned by Highland entrepreneur, Frank Strang.

Like Walter Scott's Waverley, published in the same year, it had Highland scenes that were much appreciated.

The hackle should not be confused with the much longer set of feathers commonly attached to the feather bonnet worn by Highland regiments ( now usually only worn by drummers, pipers and bandsmen ).

The Arranmore Island transmitter is a relay station used by RTÉ Network Limited and Highland Radio to provide coverage to the island and much of The Rosses which are shielded by mountains from the main transmissions.

Initially, upon deregulation, Highland continued to enjoy the monopoly position across much of its operating area.

It performed much closer to the original arcade, included two extra cars (" Stock " and " Prototype ") and two new tracks (" Highland " and " Sand Park ").

Taverham North Ward includes much of Thorpe Marriott, all of the parts of Taverham that are on the Fakenham Road and north of it, plus Highland Road and Cypress Close.

The area is well wooded compared to the many Highland areas that have suffered from overgrazing, and much of the shore is designated a Special Area of Conservation.

The Northern Highland is a geographical region covering much of the northern territory of the U. S. state of Wisconsin.

The three records suggest that John was a prominent West Highland or Hebridean leader, much like the other men the records associate him with.

Unlike much of the rest of the city, the houses in Highland Park are spaced more generously apart.

In terms of its technical requirements and the training required for its performance, Highland dancing has much in common with ballet.

Leaving aside the obvious difficulty of dancing around a sharpened spike on a shield, a much more plausible theory is that the Highland Fling is none other than a Foursome Reel with the progressive bits left out-at social gatherings, dancers would " compete " by showing off the fancy solo steps they could perform, long before formal competitions at highland games had been invented.