Note 23 — HISTORICAL RECORD
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"General Barrell's regiment (the King's Own) gained the greatest reputation imaginable at the late engagement, the best of the clans having made their strongest efforts to break them, but without effect; for the old Tangiereenes bravely repulsed those boasters with a dreadful slaughter, and convinced them that their broad sword and target are unequal to the musket and bayonet when in the hands of veterans who are determined to use them. After the battle there was not a bayonet of this regiment but was either bloody or bent."
"The battle was so desperate that the soldiers' bayonets were stained with blood to the muzzles of their musquets."
"There was scarce an officer or soldier of Barrell's (King's Own) and that part of Munro's (now thirty-seventh) which engaged, who did not kill one or two men each with their bayonets," &c.—Particulars of the Battle of Culloden published at the time.