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Soon the fraying American regiments were being hounded south by west through New Jersey, and by Christmas Day King George’s troops had driven them across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania.

Svetlana was given enough chores to occupy a regiment, from polishing all the family’s boots to making sure the horses that would pull the troika were properly shod.

“They are very disciplined and regimented about when they stop using it.”

Armed with just a set of bagpipes, the Scotsman played his way into danger when his regiment was in chaos and panic.

There, he signed up as a private with the East African Scouts, a regiment in the British army that fought in World War Two.