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Footnote 5 However, at times, volunteers did not come readily to band. In that troubled summer of 1775 in British North America, the Quebec Gazette of AugustР’В 3 reported that a recruiting party had begun 'beating up for volunteers' for the Royal Highland Emigrants, a regiment specially raised for the defence of Canada. 'The adventure produced much laughter at the expense of the piquet who had given the alarm.,' for the mysterious lights above the town turned out to be clouds of fireflies! Footnote 4Р”Р„nother long-time use of the drum, and the meaning is seen in the civilian expression of 'drumming up business,' was recruiting by beat of drum. Three boats with armed landing parties were at once sent to assist the apparently beleaguered garrison. The watch on deck in HMS Blonde, frigate, heard the drums ashore beating to arms. Some twenty years after these events at Quebec, strange lights again brought a garrison out at the double. With the drums beating and the bells of the town ringing out the alarm the whole garrison were soon at their posts ready to repel the invaders. As it turned out, these lights, sighted intermittently through the falling snow, signalled the coming attack on Quebec by rebel forces from the American colonies. On the last day of the year 1775, in the pre-dawn darkness on the ramparts of Quebec, an officer of the Royal Highland Emigrants saw suspicious lights. One drum beat that was well known to the soldier and civilian alike was the alarm, the beat to arms. Mention has been made elsewhere in this work about the beating of reveille, the retreat and the tattoo. Footnote 2 Much depended on the drummer's skill and unflagging courage under fire in making those beats heard above the din of battle. The number and variety of the messages conveyed by the drum beat have, through the centuries of human history, been limited only by the extent of man's ingenuity.Р”Р„ military dictionary of the eighteenth century lists ten distinct drum beats, each of which was fully under stood by the soldier on the battle field. But perhaps the instrument of greatest interest, and one that has been known to many primitive societies, is the drum. The trumpet and fife, and horns of a wide variety of shapes and sizes, have come down from very remote times. A writer of nearly two centuries ago expressed it this way: 'Military musick, before the introduction of fire arms, served to animate the soldiers in battles and assaults of places, as well as for the purpose of signals for the different manoeuvres and duties in camp and garrison wherefore it cannot be doubted but it was used in our antient armies.' Footnote 1 Long before airs and melodies were developed, musical sounds were used, and still are to this day, to convey messages and pass orders in the field and at sea. Music has been a part of military life from very early time.

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