Sailor

“Advance and attack!” We were being faced by a hoard of advancing lively new recruits (eager children) who had been “trained” in the way in which the volunteers for the Jacobite army may have been in 1745. A Sergeant of the Redcoats had been describing the uniforms and weapons of the opposing armies of the Jacobites and Redcoats who were the government army. Against the well trained Redcoats the Jacobites had very little chance and within a year their leader, Bonnie Prince Charlie, had abandoned his attempt to gain the British throne and left Britain for ever.
At Prestongrange Museum the sergeant here describes the dress of a sailor in 1745. At that time sailors did not have a uniform but favoured loose trousers and a shirt jacket which made it easier to move around the sailing ships The Jacobite army had no uniform either and were basically just supporters of the prince.
...... I hadn’t noticed that that a Redcoat seems to have lost his head!