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Show Are There Private Armies? It is illegal to have an army of your own, . but the law winks at private armies in one or two cases. The duke of Atholl had for they have now gone to the great war a private pri-vate army of 200 men, and has often provided guards of honor for King George from their ranks. In fact, Queen Victoria once reviewed this private pri-vate army. The duke of Atholl's private pri-vate army is for its size the finest body of soldiers in the world, all over six feet in height, sturdy Scotsmen picked from the fittest of the fit. The duke of Fife also kept a private pri-vate army which numbered a hundred men, who were armed with huge pikes exactly as the soldiers were armed centuries ago. The Stuart Archers and the Farqu-harson Farqu-harson Clansmen are two other private armies of which Scotland can boast. The marquises of Donegal, too, hav? for hundreds of years kept a private army. Pearson's. |