Black Watch

So... what did General Wade ever do for us? :-) Well, together with the building of his roads, the General designed this locally recruited force to pay impoverished highlanders to keep their impoverished and unruly compatriots in line on behalf of the British state... their experience has been put to work on behalf of British imperial and post-colonial adventures ever since - though it's interesting to note that these King's shilling men were specifically not deployed back to the Highlands during the '45... perhaps the butcher Cumberland felt that it would have been too risky to expect them to massacre their own people...

Black Watch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia has this and more about the Royal Highland Regiment...

The first independent companies of the Black Watch were raised as a militia in 1725 by George Wade to occupy and keep peace in the Scottish Highlands after the 1715 Jacobite Rising. In these early days, members were recruited from local clans, the first six companies were three of Campbells and one each of Frasers, Grants and Munros.

The Regiment of the Line was formed officially in 1739 as the 42nd Highland Regiment of Foot under John, the Earl of Crawford, and first mustered in 1740, at Aberfeldy. The regiment's earliest days were inauspicious; ordered to London in 1743 for an inspection by King George II, rumors flew that they were to be shipped to the West Indies to fight in the War of Austrian Succession, and many left for Scotland. They were recaptured, three of the leaders shot in the Tower of London, and the remainder of the regiment shipped to Flanders. The regiment's first full combat was the Battle of Fontenoy in Flanders in 1745, where they surprised the French with their ferocity, and greatly impressed their commander, the Duke of Cumberland.

When the 1745 Jacobite Rising broke out, the regiment returned to the south of Britain in anticipation of a possible French invasion. From 1747 to 1756 they were stationed in Ireland and then were sent to New York.

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Also here's The Black Watch lyrics to a not-so-well-known Irish rebel song... but some evidence of what the natives of a more recent campaign think of our boys...