still wear a line of black braid on their uniforms in
mourning for his death. The 15th and five other regiments
--the 28th, 43rd, 47th, 48th, and 58th--were English.
But the 35th had been forty years in Ireland, and was
Irish to a man. The whole seven regiments were dressed
very much alike: three-cornered, stiff black hats with
black cockades, white wigs, long-tailed red coats turned
back with blue or white in front, where they were fastened
only at the neck, white breeches, and long white gaiters
coming over the knee. A very different corps was the
78th, or 'Fraser's,' Highlanders, one of the regiments
Wolfe first recommended and Pitt first raised. Only
fourteen years before the Quebec campaign these same
Highlanders had joined Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender,
in the famous ''45.' They were mostly Roman Catholics,
which accounts for the way they intermarried with the
French Canadians after the conquest. They had been fighting
for the Stuarts against King George, and Wolfe, as we
have seen, had himself fought against them at Culloden.
Yet here they were now, under Wolfe, serving King George.
They knew that the Stuart cause was lost for ever; and
all of them, chiefs and followers alike, loved the noble
profession of arms. The Highlanders then wore 'bonnets'
like a high tam-o'-shanter, with one white curly feather
on the left side. Their red coats were faced with yellow,
and they wore the Fraser plaid hung from the shoulders
and caught up, loopwise, on both hips. Their kilts were
very short and not pleated. Badger sporrans, showing the
head in the middle, red-and-white-diced hose, and buckled
brogues completed their wild but martial dress, which