Hey, Johnny Cope, Are Ye Waking Yet?, Scottish military march

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Shortly after 1:30 P.M., 18th of June 1815 (Waterloo): Lieutenant Colonel James Inglis Hamilton sees Pack's Brigade and the 92nd starting to waver and calls the Scots Greys forwards to assist them.

The bagpipe version of a Scottish folk song lampooning Sir John Cope for his defeat at the hands of Bonnie Prince Charlie's Highlanders at the Battle of Prestonpans in 1745, during the 1745 Jacobite rising. This tune is known to have been played by at least one piper in the British Army at the Battle of Waterloo, a man in the 92nd Foot as the Scots Greys rode past. John Dickson, a cavalryman in the Scots Greys, wrote:

"...we heard the Highland pipers playing ... and I clearly saw my old friend Pipe-Major Cameron standing apart on a hillock coolly playing "Johnny Cope, are you wauking yet?" in all the din..."

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Quote taken from "Waterloo" by Bernard Cornwell

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