84th Highlanders Pipe Band
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"Guardians Of The Scottish Spirit"
GREENVILLE, South Carolina
United States
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| Member Since | 10/12/2007 | | Band Website | Coming Soon! | | Band Members | Pipe Major: Christoph Kresse
Pipers: Mike Clark, Wesley Lawton, Ken Swinton, Eugene Kennedy, Kyle MacNaughton, Dave Baznik Drummers: Bill Snyder
LOOKING FOR NEW PIPERS AND DRUMMERS TO JOIN!
 | | Influences | Pipe Band Practice Monday Evenings from 06:30pm - 08:30pm in professional practice location in Downtown Greenville, SC. Contact us for more information! | | Sounds Like | The 84th Highlanders Pipe Band are currently looking for any sort of Sponsorship relationship, donations etc. in order to pay for uniforms and instruments. Please contact us if you are interested! | | Record Label | unsigned | | Type of Label | None |
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Welcome to the future home of the 84th Highlanders Pipe Band!
Please note that this is not a reenactment group, this is a Scottish style pipe band without any affiliation to existing reenactment groups with the same or similar titles.
The pipe band is currently not active and in its beginning phase of recruiting players. We will as soon as possible upgrade information regarding the band.
The original Highland regiment of the 84th Highlanders (The Highland Emigrants) has some of its original roots in South Carolina during the time period of 1775.
Here a brief history of the original regiment:
In June 1775, the first officers were commissioned at Boston, and they traveled about to raise their men in different places. In 1775 alone, they recruited men in Boston, New York City, the Mohawk Valley, Canada, Nova Scotia, the Island of Saint Johns (PEI), Newfoundland, and North Carolina.
It was raised in 1775 by Lieutenant Colonel Allan MacLean, who was empowered to "inlist for His Majesty's Service, in any of His Provinces of North America, such Highlanders or such other Loyal Subjects..." The original commission from General Thomas Gage called for two battalions of ten company strength, each of "One Field Officer or Captain, two Subalterns, three Serjeants, three Corporals, two Drums, and Fifty private men", giving a theoretical strength of 1,220 men under arms (including drummers and captains). More men than this were actually recruited, according to available records. In addition, a full complement of senior officers was authorized. Of particular note, General Gage specified that the new military unit would be "cloathed Armed and accoutred in like manner with His Majesty's Royal Highland Regiment", indicating that they would wear the Highland Scots military uniform, unlike the more conventional uniforms worn by other Provincial units.
Recruiting preference was to be given to veterans of the 42nd, 77th, and 78th Regiments of Foot, which had served as Scottish regiments during the Seven Years' War. Many former members had settled in the North American colonies. When Col. MacLean landed in America, he discovered that Major John Small, originally of the 42nd and later the 21st Regiment of Foot, had begun raising a regiment to be known as the "Young Royal Higlanders". This nascent battalion was, instead, integrated as the second battalion of the Royal Highland Emigrants under Small as Major in command. Officers were commissioned in Boston. These officers then raised men in and around Boston, New York, the Mohawk Valley, Canada, Nova Scotia, the Island of Saint Johns, Newfoundland, and North Carolina. Most of the recruits from the coast were sent to the Second Battalion, while the majority of the Carolinian recruits were never able to join the regiment, being scattered at the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in February 1776.
In 1778, all battalions of the regiment were moved from the Provincial to the Regular Establishment as the 84th Regiment of Foot. They served as part of the Regular Establishment until the end of the war. After the end of hostilities, the 84th was disbanded, and its men were offered land grants. The First battalion settled mainly in Ontario while the Second mainly in Nova Scotia. A few took passage, instead, to Britain. This unit, the "old 84th", was completely disbanded and has no direct descendants in the military of the modern United Kingdom. Later regiments to bear this number have no historical nor traditional connection to it. However, the Canadian Army considers the 84th to be continued in the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders.
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