Tour Scotland photograph of the Black Watch Badge, Royal Highland Regiment, on the outside wall of Balhousie Castle, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Motto: " No One Provokes Me With Impunity. " Nickname: " Ladies from Hell. " The source of the regiment's name is uncertain. In 1725, following the Jacobite rebellion of 1715, General George Wade was authorised by George II to form six "watch" companies to patrol the Highlands of Scotland, three from Clan Campbell, one from Clan Fraser, one from Clan Munro and one from Clan Grant. These were to be " employed in disarming the Highlanders, preventing depredations, bringing criminals to justice, and hindering rebels and attainted persons from inhabiting that part of the kingdom. " The force was known in Gaelic as Am Freiceadan Dubh, " the dark " or " black watch "
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