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Cape Town Highlanders, Transvaal Scottish: Military ‘Scottishness’ and Social Power in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century South Africa

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  • Mitchell . Tartan 2–6
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  • Ibid.
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  • Ibid., 40. Brown was a Covenanter summarily killed by Claverhouse
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  • Griffiths . “ Highlanders 2009–1970. ” . In First City; Orpen
  • Mitchell . Tartan 47
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  • Orpen . Highlanders 2009–1985 38
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