COGAD/COGADH/CIGAUDG NA SITH (Peace or War/War or Peace). Scottish, Pipe Air. Played to inspire the troops by gallant Kenneth Mackay piper to the Grenedier Company of the 79th Regiment (Cameron Highlanders) at Waterloo, when he bravely stepped outside the protection of his comrades' traditional square formation (formed to receive the charge of the French cavalry), walking too and fro before the enemy. O'Neill (1913) relates its similar use in India, when a piper in Lork McLeod's regiment, seeing the British army giving way before superior numbers, played "War or Peace" which inspired the Highlanders with such spirit that they rallied and cut through their enemies. For this circumstance Sir Eyre Coote, filled with admiration, presented the regiment with fifty pounds to buy a stand of pipes. Still another military anecdote has pipers of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders playing the tune at St. Piere during the Peninsular War. The first lines of the song set to it go:
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War or peace, peace or war, its all the same to me,
In war I might be killed, in peace I might be hanged!
COLONEL W. MARSHALL OF THE 79th REGIMENT OF FOOT. Scottish, Strathspey. C Major. Standard. AB. Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833). The Colonel Marshall referred to in the title was Marshall's third (and only surviving) son, also named William, who served in the Napoleonic Wars and lost his right arm at the battle of Quatre Bras, just prior to Waterloo. He retired to live in the house built by his father, Newfield and was remembered as a popular figure in the district of Aberlour/Craigellachie in his later years (Cowie, The Life and Times of William Marshall, 1999). It was he who honored his father with a gravestone in Bellie Cemetery, Fochabers. The Colonel's regiment, the 79th Regiment of Foot was also known as The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, and although a Scottish regiment it usually had a number of Englishman in it at any one time (Farwell, 1981). Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1845 Collection; pg. 14.
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LIEUTENANT MURRAY'S WELCOME TO THE 79th. Scottish, March (2/4 time). D Major. Standard. AABBCCDD. Composed by Duncan Campbell, appearing in Logan's Collection, Book 4. The 79th Regiment is popularly known as the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, the only single-battalion regiment in the Victorian British army between 1881 and 1897, and one which mustered a number of Englishman in its ranks. Hardie (Caledonian Companion), 1986; pg. 24. The Scottish Fiddle Festival Orchestra - "Scottish Traditional Fiddle Music" (1978).
SEVENTY NINTH'S FAREWELL TO GIBRALTER. AKA and see "Farewell to Gibralter." Scottish, March (2/4 time). A Major. Standard. AABBCCDD. "The finest pipe march ever written," as it has been called, was omposed by Pipe Major J. McDonald in 1848, upon the occasion of the regiment's receiving orders to leave their post in Gibralter. The 79th was originally supposed to have gone to the West Indies, a post notorious for its unhealthy climate and the inordinate amount of casualties due to fever, however, at the last minute the regiment was posted to Canada due to the fortuitous intervention of the Secretary of State (who controlled such things and who happened to be the commanding officer's brother and an old 79th officer himself). The 79th Regiment was (and still is) known as the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, the only single-battalion regiment in the British army until 1897. It consisted not only of Scotsmen, but, even in Victorian times was noted for the number of Englishmen in its ranks. Martin (Ceol na Fidhle), Vol. 1, 1991; pg. 34. Philo 1051, Boys of the Lough - "Good Friends, Good Music" (1977). Shanachie Shan-79017, John & Phill Cunningham - "Against the Storm" (1980).