 Historian and musician Derek Warfield released a book and companion CD, which he entitled "Clear the Way", dealing with the history of the 69th Regiment.Australian poet Banjo Paterson uses it in the poem Father Riley's Horse, claiming that the name "is French for 'Clear the course'".This is part of a running gag on language in the poem; elsewhere it claims that another Irish word, Banshee, is "Spanish for an elf".