follow 'the 60th's' lead so far as that is possible. Many
of its officers and men who returned from the conquest
of Canada to their homes in the British colonies were
destined to move on to Canada with their families as
United Empire Loyalists. This was their first war; and
they did so well in it that Wolfe gave them the rifleman's
motto they still bear in token of their smartness and
dash--_Celer et Audax_. Unfortunately they did not then
wear the famous 'rifle green' but the ordinary red.
Unfortunately, too, the rifleman's green has no connection
with the 'green jackets of American backwoodsmen in the
middle of the eighteenth century.' The backwoodsmen were
not dressed in green as a rule, and they never formed
any considerable part of the regiment at any time. The
first green uniform came in with the new 5th battalion
in 1797; and the old 2nd and 3rd battalions, which fought
under Wolfe, did not adopt it till 1815. It was not even
of British origin, but an imitation of a German hussar
uniform which was itself an imitation of one worn by the
Hungarians, who have the senior hussars of the world.
But though Wolfe's Royal Americans did not wear the rifle
green, and though their coats and waistcoats were of
common red, their uniforms differed from those of all
other regiments at Quebec in several particulars. The
most remarkable difference was the absence of lace, an
absence specially authorized only for this corps, and
then only in view of special service and many bush fights
in America. The double-breasted coats were made to button
across, except at the top, where the lapels turned back,
like the cuffs and coat-tails. All these 'turnbacks' and