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| | Photo Gallery - Georgia Provincial Companies |
 | | The troop of English Rangers, raised in 1739, was divided into several parties, scattered throughout the colony for patrolling duties on horseback. |
 | | The Highland Independent Company of Foot, raised in 1740 at Darien, also wore Highland dress: blue bonnet, plaid jacket and waistcoat, Highland hose, and "belted plaid" (a wool tartan about three yards long, belted around the waist forming a knee-length kilt, with the rest draped over the left shoulder). |
 | | The English and Highland Rangers, Highland Independent Company, 42nd Regiment of Foot (see MUIA Plate No. 410), and various Indian war parties participated in the ill-fated British invasion of Spanish Florida during the summer of 1740. |
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