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I have no idea who Princess Louise is/was, but the cool good guys from last week in Iraq were her “Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders,” who, if you didn’t catch the story already, initiated and very successfully completed the first British bayonette charge in over 20 years. Read about it. And let’s not forget those who preceded them:

• The Argylls’ forebears formed The Thin Red Line which kept 25,000 Russians at bay at Balaclava during the Crimean War of the 1850s.
• In 1967, Argylls commander Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Mitchell known as Mad Mitch stormed a rebel stronghold in Yemen.
• Accompanied only by 15 pipers playing Scotland The Brave, he recaptured Crater Town, the commercial heart of Aden, which had been in enemy hands for two weeks.
• The regiment has won 16 Victoria Crosses.

I don’t think the pipers were around this time, but Mad Mitch would have been proud.

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