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QUICK STEP 26th REGIMENT. English, March (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The 26th Regiment [1] began as the Cameronian Regiment, first raised in Scotland in 1668. In 1751 it was reorganized as the 26th Regiment of Foot, and saw service in North America during the American War of Independence, and in the wars with Napoleon (the First Battalion only served in the Peninsular War).

A soldier of the 26th Regiment, c. 1742



Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. II, 1785; No. 108, p. 39.

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