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who had come more recently from the young United States. The regiment also had significant numbers of
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Glasgow. In response, the men were all discharged in the fall of 1804. Subsequently, the commissioned officers and a skeleton crew of other ranks were sent to re-raise the regiment in the Canadas.
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in its ranks, and evidence from an honourable regimental discharge paper has suggested that there was also one soldier among them who had been born in
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in 1991. Most recently, Eamonn O'Keeffe authored a book chapter on the regiment's fife and drum corps and band. In an article for
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