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✔ The History of the First West India Regiment
The History of the First West India Regiment
Alfred Ellis
A. B. Ellis
INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER
At the present day, when our Continental neighbours are outvying each other in the completeness of their military organisations and the size of their armies, while in the United Kingdom complaints are daily heard that the supply of recruits for the British Army is not equal to the demand, it may not be out of place to draw the attention of the public to a source from which the army may be most economically reinforced.
The principal difficulty experienced by military reformers in their endeavours to remodel the British Army on the Continental system, is that caused by the necessity of providing troops for the defence of our vast and scattered Colonial Empire. Without taking into consideration India, our European and North American possessions, a considerable portion of the army has to be employed in furnishing garrisons for the Cape Colony, Natal, Mauritius, St. Helena, the Bermudas, the West Indies, Burmah, the Straits Settlements, Hong Kong, etc.; which garrisons, though creating a constant drain on the Home Establishment, are notoriously inadequate for the defence of the various colonies in which they are placed; and the result is that, whenever a colonial war breaks out, fresh battalions have to be hurriedly sent out from the United Kingdom at immense expense, and the entire military machine is temporarily disarranged.
In size, and in diversity of subject races, the British Empire may be not inaptly compared with that of Rome in its palmiest days; and we have, in a measure, adopted a Roman scheme for the defence of a portion of our dominions. The Romans were accustomed, as each new territory was conquered, to raise levies of troops from the subject race, and then, most politicly, to send them to serve in distant parts of the Empire, where they could have no sympathies with the inhabitants. In India we, like the Romans, raise troops from the conquered peoples, but, unlike them, we retain those troops for service in their own country. The result of this attempt to modify the scheme was the Indian mutiny.
The plan of a local colonial army was, however, first tried in the West Indies. At the close of the last century, when the West India Islands, or the Plantations, as they were then called, were of as much importance to, and held the same position in, the British Empire as India does now, there was in existence a West India Army, consisting of twelve battalions of negro troops, raised exclusively for service in the West Indies.
As India was gradually conquered, and the West India trade declined (from the abolition of the slave trade and other causes), the West India Colonies, by a regular process, fell from their former pre-eminent position. Each step in the descent was marked by the disbandment of a West India regiment, until, at the present day, two only remain in existence; and it is a matter of common notoriety that those two are principally preserved to garrison Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast Colony, British Honduras, and British Guiana – colonies the climates of which, experience has shown, are fatal to European soldiers, who are necessarily in time of peace, from the nature of their duties, more exposed to climatic influence than are officers. Economy was, of course, the cause of this continued process of reduction, for, until recently, such gigantic military establishments as those of Germany, Russia, and France were unheard of; and Great Britain was satisfied, and felt secure, with a miniature army, a paper militia, and no reserve. All this is now changed, and the necessity of an increase in our defensive power is admitted.
These negro West India troops won the highest encomiums from every British commander under whom they served. Sir Ralph Abercromby in 1796, Sir John Moore in 1797, Lieutenant-General Trigge in 1801, Sir George Provost in 1805, Lieutenant-General Beckwith and Major-General Maitland in 1809 and 1810, all testified to the gallantry, steadiness, and discipline of the negro soldiers. Sir John Moore, speaking of the new corps in 1796, said "they are invaluable," and "the very best troops for the climate." To come to more recent times, in 1873 the 2nd West India Regiment bore for six months the entire brunt of the Ashanti attack, and had actually forced the invading army to retire across the Prah before the men of a single line battalion were landed. In fact, the efficiency of West India troops was, and is, unquestioned.
This being so, it may be asked, why should not the present number of regiments composed of negro soldiers be increased for the purpose of garrisoning the colonies, especially those of which the climate is most prejudicial to English soldiers? This would not be a return to the former state of affairs, for when we had twelve negro regiments they were all stationed in the West Indies, whereas the essence of the present scheme is to send them on service in other colonies. Such an augmentation of our West India, or Zouave, regiments certainly appears politic and easy. I will also endeavour to show that it would be economical.
Each West India battalion would take the place of a Territorial battalion now serving abroad. The latter would return to the United Kingdom, be reduced to the Home Establishment, and have from 300 to 400 men passed into the Reserve. Repeat this process seven or eight times, and the services with the colours of between 2000 and 3000 European soldiers are dispensed with, the Reserve being increased by that number. In addition, negro soldiers being enlisted for twelve years' service with the colours, negro regiments on foreign service would not require those large drafts sent to white battalions to replace time-expired men, transport for which so swells the army estimates; while the negro being a native of the tropics, invaliding home would be reduced to a minimum.
The pay of the black soldier is ninepence per diem, against a shilling per diem to the white, so that there would be some saving effected in that way. In fact, it has been calculated that for an annual addition to the army estimates of some £27,000, six new negro battalions, each 800 strong, could be maintained; giving, on the one hand, an addition of 4800 to our present military force, and on the other, an increased Reserve, and six more Territorial battalions in the United Kingdom, ready to hand on a European emergency. To this may be added the lives of scores of Englishmen yearly saved to their country.
By the Territorial scheme now in force in Great Britain, an attempt has been made to localise corps on the German system, irrespective of the fact that Germany has no colonies, while those of Great Britain are most numerous. In Germany, in time of peace, each army corps is located in a district, from which it never moves, and in which the Reserve men, destined to complete the regiments to war strength, are compelled to live. Thus, when a general mobilisation takes place, the men are on the spot, and join the regiments in which they have already served. France has adopted this system, with the exception that army corps are not permanently located in districts, and the army thus localised is the one for European service only. For her colonies an entirely distinct army is maintained, composed of men specially enlisted for foreign service. In Great Britain we have neither adopted the German system nor the French modification of that system; but a scheme of localisation, with the main-spring of localisation removed, has been endeavoured to be grafted upon our old system, under which the regular army is sent on service in time of peace to distant portions of the globe. Should the mobilisation of an army corps be necessary in England, the Reserve men would, in a large number of cases, find the regiments in which they had formerly served, on foreign service. It would then be necessary to draft them into regiments to which they were strangers, in which they would take no interest, and where they would be unknown to their officers. On the other hand, should it be necessary to despatch suddenly six or seven battalions to India or the Cape, they have to be made up to a war strength from other corps, for they have been reduced to a skeleton establishment in order that men may be provided for the Reserve.
Localisation, to be effectual, must be thorough; but it and the demands of foreign service are so incompatible that they cannot be efficiently combined. At the present time, neither is said to be in a satisfactory condition, and the Reserve, which was expected to have risen to a total of 80,000 men, consists of 32,000 only.
Military reformers have long since arrived at the conclusion that if the British Army is to be maintained at such a footing as to give weight to the voice of Great Britain in the councils of Europe, we must have two distinct armies; namely, one for home service, ready for a European imbroglio, and a second to which the defence of the colonies can be entrusted. The objection to this has been, hitherto, the great expense, for it has always been taken for granted that this Colonial Army would consist of white soldiers; and the question of increased pay, supply of recruits, and periodical removal of men to the United Kingdom, over and above the cost of the Territorial Army, had to be considered. With negro troops, however, for the Colonial Army, this objection, if it does not entirely disappear, is reduced at least by three-quarters. Should it be tried on a small scale and found successful, there need be no reason why in time almost the whole of the Territorial battalions should not be withdrawn from foreign service. In this way localisation could be made a reality; and with such vast untouched recruiting grounds as our colonies offer, there can be no doubt as to the practicability of raising the negro regiments required. Such regiments might also partly compose the garrisons of Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, Aden, and Ceylon. There is, indeed, no reason, except the hatred of the Hindoo for the negro, why such regiments might not serve in India. As the negro would never coalesce with the natives of India, a new and entirely reliable force, indifferent to tropical heat, and not requiring a vast retinue of camp-followers, would be always at hand. Of course, negro battalions could never be employed in cold latitudes, for the negro suffers from cold in a manner which is incomprehensible even to Europeans who have passed the best part of their lives in the tropics. Instead of being braced by and deriving activity from the cold, he becomes languid and inert; and nothing but the rays of the sun can arouse him to any exertion. Even in West Africa, during the Harmattan season, natives may be observed in the early morning, hugging their scanty clothing around them and shivering with cold; while the ill-fated expedition to New Orleans showed what deadly havoc an inclement climate will play with negro troops.
Next, as to the men of whom these negro regiments would be composed. It is too much the custom in Great Britain, in describing a man of colour, to consider that all has been said that is necessary when he is called a negro; yet there are as many nationalities, and as many types of the African race, as there are of the Caucasian. No one would imagine that a European was sufficiently described by the title of "white man." It would be asked if the individual in question were an Englishman, German, Frenchman, and so on; and the same kind of classification is necessary for the negro. On the western coast of Africa, the portion of the African continent from which North and South America and the West Indies obtained their negro population, there are at least twenty different varieties of the African race, distinct from each other in features and even in colour; and these are again subdivided into several hundred nations or tribes, each of which possesses a language, manners, and customs of its own.
In the days of the slave-trade, the slave-dealers adopted certain arbitrary designations to denote from what portion of the coast their wares were obtained. For instance, slaves shipped from Sierra Leone and the rivers to the north and east of that peninsula, and who were principally Timmanees, Kossus, Acoos, Mendis, Foulahs, and Jolloffs, were called Mandingoes, from the dominant tribe of that name which supplied the slave-market. Negroes from the Gold Coast kingdoms of Ashanti, Fanti, Assin, Akim, Wassaw, Aquapim, Ahanta, and Accra were denominated Koromantyns, or Coromantees, a corruption of Cormantine, the name of a fort some sixteen miles to the east of Cape Coast Castle, and which was the earliest British slave-station on the Gold Coast. Similarly, slaves from the tribes inhabiting the Slave Coast, that is to say, Awoonahs, Agbosomehs, Flohows, Popos, Dahomans, Egbas, and Yorubas, were all termed Papaws; while those from the numerous petty states of the Niger delta, where the lowest type of the negro is to be found, were known as Eboes.
Thousands of men of these tribes, and others too numerous to mention, were carried across the Atlantic and scattered at hap-hazard all over the West India Islands. At first tribal distinctions were maintained, but in the course of years, in each island they gradually disappeared and were forgotten; until at the present day a West India negro does not describe himself as a Kossu or a Koromantyn, but as a Jamaican, a Barbadian, an Antiguan, etc. It would naturally be supposed that as the West India Islands all received their slave population in the same manner, and that as in each there was the same original diversity of nationalities, subsequently blended together by intermarriages and community of wants and language, a West India negro of the present generation from any one island would be hardly distinguishable from one from any other. Nothing, however, would be further from the truth. Since the abolition of slavery, the conditions of life in the various islands have been so different – in some the dense population necessitating daily labour for an existence, while in others large uncultivated stretches of wood and mountain have afforded squatting grounds for the majority of the black population – that, in conjunction with diversity of climate, each group of islands is now populated with a race of negroes morally distinct per se. The difference between a negro born and bred in Barbados and one born and bred in Jamaica is as great as between an American and an Englishman, and the clannish spirit of the negro tends to increase that difference. At the present time the negro of Jamaica does not care to enlist in the 2nd West India Regiment, which is largely recruited in Barbados; and, in the same way, the Barbadian declines to serve in the 1st West India Regiment, because it is almost entirely composed of Jamaicans.
While the negroes of the West Indies have thus lost all their tribal peculiarities in the natural course of progress and civilisation, those of West Africa have remained at a standstill; and there is to-day as much difference between the hideous and debased Eboe and the stately and dignified Mandingo, between the docile Fanti and the bloodthirsty Ashanti, as there was one hundred and fifty years ago. Civilising influences have made this contrast between the Africans and their West India descendants still more striking. The latter have, since the abolition of slavery, been living independent lives, in close contact with civilisation, and enjoying all the rights of manhood under British laws. From their earliest infancy they have known no language but the English, and no religion but Christianity; while the former are still barbarians, grovelling in fetishism, cursed with slavery, ignorant, debased, and wantonly cruel. The West India negro has so much contempt for his African cousin, that he invariably speaks of him by the ignominious title of "bushman." In fact, the former considers himself in every respect an Englishman, and the anecdote of the West India negro, who, being rather roughly jolted by a Frenchman on board a mail steamer, turned round to him and ejaculated, "I think you forget that we beat you at Waterloo," is no exaggeration.
Just as the negro races of West Africa are distinct from one another, and the West India negro from all, so are the coloured inhabitants of both those parts of the world entirely distinct from the Kaffir tribes of South Africa; and a coalition between Galeka or Zulu inhabitants and West India troops would be as impossible as the fraternisation of a Territorial battalion with the natives of India. Apart, however, from the fact that negro troops could always be safely employed alone outside the colony in which they were bred, history has shown that the fidelity of West India soldiers is beyond question. Indeed it would be difficult to say what stronger ties there could be than those of sentiment, language, and religion, and the association from childhood with British manners, customs, laws, and modes of thought. When to these are added discipline, the habit of obedience, and that well-known affection for their officers and their regiment which is so particularly an attribute of the West India soldier, it must be acknowledged that the guarantees of fidelity are, with the single exception of race, at least as good as those of the linesmen.
In India, the native army consists of men hostile to us by tradition, creed, and race, who consider their food defiled if even the shadow of a British officer should chance to fall across it, and assuredly it would be as safe a proceeding to garrison our colonies with English negroes as to garrison India with such men. Yet that is done at the present day, and excites no remark.
The English-speaking negro of the West Indies is most excellent material for a soldier. He is docile, patient, brave, and faithful, and for an officer who knows how to gain his affection – an easy matter, requiring only justness, good temper, and an ear ready to listen patiently to any tale of real or imaginary grievance – he will do anything. Of course they are not perfect; they have their faults, like all soldiers, and when they chance to be commanded by an officer who is unnecessarily harsh, or who speaks roughly to them, they manifest their displeasure by passive obedience and a stubborn sullenness. English soldiers, on the other hand, under such circumstances, proceed to acts of insubordination, and it is for military judges to say which mode of expression they prefer.
The West African negro does not appear to such advantage as a soldier. Although all the specimens, with the exception of the Sierra Leone negro, possess the first necessary qualification of personal courage, they are dull and stupid, and cannot be transformed into intelligent soldiers. It may be wondered why the Sierra Leonean, who alone among the West Africans is an English-speaking negro, should be worse than his more barbarian neighbours; but I believe the solution may be found in the fact that the large proportion of slaves landed in former days at Sierra Leone from captured slavers were so-called Eboes, from the tribes of the Niger delta; which tribes all ethnologists are agreed in describing as among the lowest of the African races, and which, it may be remarked, are even at the present day addicted to cannibalism. The West African soldier is a mere machine, who mechanically obeys orders, and never ventures, under any circumstances, to act or think for himself. Should an African be placed on sentry, he fulfils to the letter the orders read to him by the non-commissioned officer who posts him, but frequently entirely ignores their spirit. Sometimes this is productive of amusing incidents. For instance, some years ago, among the orders for the sentry posted at Government House, Sierra Leone, was one to the effect that no one was to be permitted to leave the premises after dark carrying a parcel. This order had been issued at the request of the Governor, to prevent pilfering on the part of his servants. One evening the Governor was coming out of his house with a small despatch-box, when, to his surprise, he was stopped by the sentry, an old African.
"But I'm the Governor," said the astonished administrator, "and I had that order made myself. You mustn't stop me."
"Me no care if you be Gubnor or not," replied the imperturbable African. "The corporal gib de order, and you no can pass." And Her Majesty's representative had to turn back and leave his despatch-box at home.
The greatest objection to the African, however, is the strange fact that no amount of care or attention on the part of his instructors can ever make him a good or even a fair shot. In the 1st West India Regiment there are still a few Africans remaining, most of whom have from twelve to eighteen years' service; and who have annually expended their rounds without hitting the target more than once or twice during the whole musketry course. Give these men a rifle rested on a tripod, and tell them to align the sights upon some given mark, and they cannot do it. They will frequently aim a foot or two to the right or left of an object only a few yards distant. Every possible plan has been tried to make them improve, but all have equally failed; and, in consequence, Africans are not now enlisted. Still, although on account of this failing, African troops could never, in these days of long-range firing, meet Europeans in the field, a battalion of Africans would be quite good enough for bush fighting against an enemy like the Ashanti, a still worse marksman, and worse armed; or against tribes armed with the spear or assegai.
Of course one reason of the African's dulness is that until he enlists, that is until he is from twenty-four to thirty years of age, he has never exercised his mind in any way; and the long years of mental idleness have produced a sluggishness which makes it extremely difficult for him to acquire anything new that requires thought. After enlisting, he picks up a species of unintelligible English, but that is the most that he can do. It is pitiful to see these men, some of them now old, struggling day after day, according to regulation, in the regimental school, to learn their letters. It is to them the greatest punishment that could be inflicted, and though they attend school for years, they rarely succeed in doing more than master the alphabet.
In former days, whenever the cargo of a captured slaver was landed at Sierra Leone, a party from the garrison used to be admitted to the Liberated African Yard for the purpose of seeking recruits amongst the slaves. Many of the latter, pleased with the brilliant uniform, and talked over by the recruiting party, who were men specially selected for this duty on account of their knowledge of African languages, offered themselves as recruits. If medically fit, they were invariably accepted, though it must have been well known that they could not possibly have had any idea of the nature of the engagement into which they were entering. Some fifteen or twenty recruits being thus obtained, they were given high-sounding names, such as Mark Antony, Scipio Africanus, etc., their own barbaric appellations being too unpronounceable, and then marched down in a body to the cathedral to be baptised. Some might be Mohammedans, and the majority certainly believers in fetish, but the form of requiring their assent to a change in their religion was never gone through; and the following Sunday they were marched into church as a matter of course, along with their Christian comrades. Although thus nominally christianised, they still remained at heart believers in fetish, for it is a remarkable fact that no adult West African has ever become a bonâ-fide convert, and the missionaries have long since given up attempting to proselytise grown persons, reserving all their efforts for children. Holding, as they did, in great dread all fetish, or obeah, practices; usually someone amongst them, more cunning than the rest, professed an acquaintance with the supposed diabolical ritual; and gained influence with, and extorted money from, his more timid comrades. Officers now in the 1st West India Regiment can remember the time when, there being many Africans in the regiment, the feathers of parrots or scraps of rags might be found in the neighbourhood of the orderly room. Whenever this was the case, it was known that an African was about to be brought before his commanding officer for some neglect of duty or breach of discipline; and these fetishes had been placed there to induce the colonel to deal leniently with the offender. Ridiculous as this practice must seem to every educated person, it sometimes produced the most serious effects upon the credulous Africans; and I have heard old officers speak of instances, which came within their own knowledge, of soldiers who, having found old bones, broken pieces of calabashes, or glass, placed on their beds, immediately resigned themselves to death, saying that "fetish was thrown upon them," and in nine cases out of twelve, so certain were they that it was impossible to escape the coming doom, they positively frightened or worried themselves to death. The professors of fetishism likewise drove a good trade in amulets which rendered the wearer invulnerable. On one occasion at Sierra Leone, a young African who had been recently enlisted displayed with much pride a gri-gri or amulet which he wore on his wrist, and which, he asserted, rendered him invulnerable. His West India comrades laughed at him; and the African, indignant at the doubt thrown upon the efficacy of his charm, drew his knife, and, before he could be stopped, plunged it into his thigh to prove that he spoke the truth. His eyes were opened, unfortunately, too late; for though he was at once removed to the hospital, he died from the effects of this self-inflicted wound. In West India regiments the practice of fetish was made a military crime, and was severely punished. Sufferers or imaginary sufferers from fetishism, however, rarely complained to their officers, for they believed that the occult art practised by the professor was superior to any power held by man, and consequently, culprits were but seldom detected. With the disappearance of Africans from West India regiments, the offence of fetishism has, however, also disappeared.
Military crime in West India regiments is of comparatively rare occurrence. Even when the 3rd West India Regiment was in existence, there was less in the three negro regiments than in one of the Line; while drunkenness is confined to the few black sheep who will be found in every body of men. Riots or disturbances between West India soldiers and the inhabitants of the towns in which they are quartered are unheard of, and in every garrison they receive the highest praise for their unvarying good and quiet behaviour. In fact they are merry, good-tempered, and orderly men, who do not wish to interfere with anyone; and, owing to their temperate habits, they are not led into the commission of offences by the influence of drink. Of course, the popular idea in Great Britain of the negro is that he is a person who commonly wears a dilapidated tall hat, cotton garments of brilliant hue, carries a banjo or concertina, and indulges in extraordinary cachinnations at the smallest pretext; but this is as far from the truth as the creature of imagination in the opposite extreme, evoked by the vivid fancy of Mrs. Beecher Stowe.
The bravery of the West India soldier in action has often been tested, and as long as an officer remains alive to lead not a man will flinch. His favourite weapon is the bayonet; and the principal difficulty with him in action is to hold him back, so anxious is he to close with his enemy. It is unnecessary here to refer to individual acts of gallantry performed by soldiers of the 1st West India Regiment, they being fully set forth in the following history; but of such performed by soldiers of other West India regiments the two following now occur to me.
Private Samuel Hodge, a pioneer of the 3rd West India Regiment, was awarded the Victoria Cross for conspicuous bravery at the storming of the Mohammedan stockade at Tubarcolong (the White Man's Well), on the River Gambia, on the 30th of May, 1866. Under a heavy fire from the concealed enemy, by which one officer was killed and an officer and thirteen men severely wounded, Hodge, and another pioneer named Boswell, chopped and tore away with their hands the logs of wood forming the stockade, Boswell falling nobly just as an opening was effected. Again, in 1873, during the Ashanti War – when it was reported, on the 5th of December, by natives at Yancoomassie Assin that the Ashanti army had retired across the Prah – two soldiers of the 2nd West India Regiment volunteered to go on alone to the river and ascertain if the report were true. On their return they reported all clear to the Prah; and said they had written their names on a piece of paper and posted it up. Six days later, when the advanced party of the expeditionary force marched into Prahsu, this paper was found fastened to a tree on the banks of the river. At the time that this voluntary act was performed it must be remembered that, on the 27th of November, the British and their allies had met with a serious repulse at Faisowah, through pressing too closely upon the retiring Ashantis; that this repulse was considered both by the Ashantis and by our native allies as a set-off against the failure of the attack on Abracampa; that the Houssa levy was in a state of panic, and no reliable information as to the position of the enemy was obtainable. It was under such circumstances that these two men advanced nearly sixteen miles into an (to them) unknown tract of solitary forest, to follow up an enemy that never spared life, and whose whereabouts was doubtful.
Other qualifications apart, however, West India troops have proved themselves of the very greatest value on active service in tropical climates from the very fact that, being natives of the tropics, they can undergo fatigue and exposure that would be fatal to European soldiers. In campaigns in which both the West India and the European soldier are employed, all the hard and unpleasant work is thrown upon the former, and the publication in general orders of the thanks of the officer in command of the force is the only acknowledgment he receives; for newspaper correspondents, naturally anxious to swell the circulation of the journals they represent, while giving the most minute details of the doings of the white soldier, leave out in the cold his black comrade, who has few friends among the reading public of Great Britain. Occasionally, facts are even misrepresented. For instance, the defence of Fommanah, on the 2nd of February, 1874, which was really effected by a detachment of the 1st West India Regiment, was, in an account telegraphed to one London daily paper, attributed to the 23rd Regiment, of which corps there were only six or seven men in the place, and those in hospital.
On the last occasion on which West India troops served with Line battalions, namely in the Ashanti War of 1873-74, West India soldiers daily marched twice and even three times the distance traversed by the white troops; and, south of the Prah, searched the country for miles on both sides of the line of advance, in search of carriers. It is not too much to say, that if the two West India regiments had not been on the Gold Coast, no advance on Coomassie would, that year, have been possible. In December, 1873, the transport broke down; there was a deadlock along the road; each half-battalion of the European troops was detained in the camp it occupied, and the 23rd Regiment had to be re-embarked for want of carriers. The fate of the expedition was trembling in the balance, and the control officers were unanimous in declaring that a further advance was impossible, and that the troops in front would have to return by forced marches. Prior to this, the want of transport had been felt to such an extent that the West India soldiers had been placed on half rations; a step, however, which was not followed by any diminution of work, which remained as hard as ever. In this emergency the two West India regiments, with the 42nd – to whom all honour be due – volunteered to carry supplies, in addition to their arms, accoutrements, and ammunition. They acted as carriers for several days, and moved such quantities of provisions to the front that the pressure was removed and a further advance made possible. Even if more carriers had been obtained from the already ransacked native villages, they could not have arrived in time, for the rainy season was fast approaching and the delay of a fortnight would have been fatal.
There was a peculiar irony of fate in the expedition being thus relieved of its most pressing difficulties through the exertions of the West India regiments. It had been Sir Garnet Wolseley's original intention to take into Ashanti territory only the Rifle Brigade, the 23rd, and the 1st and 2nd West India Regiments; and, on the arrival of the hired transport, Sarmatian, he wrote, on the 15th of December, that he did not propose landing the 42nd. In the course of the next three days, however, he changed his views, and, in his letter of the 18th December, gave as his reason: "I find that the one great obstacle to the employment of a third battalion of English troops, viz., the difficulty of transport, is as great in the case of a West India regiment. The West India soldier has the same rations as the European soldier, and a West India regiment requires, man for man, exactly the same amount of transport as a European regiment." The 42nd, therefore, was to be landed and taken to the front, while the 1st West India Regiment was to remain at Cape Coast Castle and Elmina as a reserve. Afterwards, when the transport failed, it was found that the West India soldier could do the work of the European on half rations, and carry his own supplies as well.
West India regiments at the present day labour under many disadvantages. Owing to the two battalions having to furnish garrisons for colonies which really require three, they are alternately for one period of three years divided into three detachments, and for the next period of three years into six. No lieutenant-colonel of a West India regiment can ever see the whole of his regiment together. The largest number that, under present circumstances, he can ever have under him at any one station is four companies; and the most he can have under his actual command at any one time is six companies on board a troopship. Thus in a regiment there are sometimes three, and sometimes six, officers vested with the power of an officer commanding a detachment; and however conscientiously they may endeavour to follow out a regimental system, every individual has naturally a different manner of dealing with men, and a certain amount of homogeneousness is lost to the regiment as a whole.
Endless correspondence is entailed, and sometimes questions have to remain open for months, until answers can be received from distant detachments. In small garrisons, also, drill becomes a mere farce; for, after the clerks, employed men, and men on guard and in hospital are deducted, there are perhaps only a dozen men or so left for parade. In spite of all these drawbacks the regiments still maintain a wonderful efficiency, and afford another proof of the soldierlike qualities of the West India negro.
Another disadvantage is that a West India regiment is never seen in England, the British public knows nothing of such regiments, has no friends, relatives, or acquaintances in their ranks, and consequently takes no interest in them. Yet they are a remarkably fine body of men, and a picked battalion of the Guards would look small beside them if brigaded with them in Hyde Park. So little is known, that I have sometimes been asked if the officers of West India regiments are also black, and it is with a view to making the regiment to which I have the honour to belong better known to the public at large, that the following history has been written. There has been no attempt at descriptive writing, facts being merely collected from official documents, so that the authenticity of the narrative may be unquestionable.
In order that the earlier chapters may be the more readily understood, it may be as well to state that, with the 1st West India Regiment, which was called into existence in the London Gazette of the 2nd of May, 1795, were incorporated two other corps; of which one, the Carolina Corps, had been in existence since 1779, while the other – Malcolm's, or the Royal Rangers – had been raised in January or February, 1795. It is from the Carolina Corps that the 1st West India Regiment derives the Carolina laurel, borne on the crest of the regiment.
CHAPTER I.
THE ACTION AT BRIAR CREEK, 1779 – THE ACTION AT STONO FERRY, 1779
In the autumn of 1778, during the War of the American Independence, the British commanders in North America determined to make another attempt for the royal cause in the Southern States of Georgia and South Carolina, which, since the failure of Lord Cornwallis at the siege of Charlestown in July, 1776, had been allowed to remain unmolested. With this view they despatched Colonel Campbell, in November, from New York, with the 71st Regiment, two battalions of Hessians, three of Loyal Provincials,[1 - De Lancey's Corps, the New York Volunteers, and Skinner's Corps.] and a detachment of Artillery, the whole amounting to about 3500, to make an attempt upon the town of Savannah, the capital of Georgia. Arriving off the mouth of the Savannah River on the 23rd of December, Colonel Campbell was so rapidly successful, that, by the middle of January, not only was Savannah in his hands, but Georgia itself was entirely cleared of American troops.
It was about this time that the South Carolina Regiment, the oldest branch of the 1st West India Regiment, was raised. Numerous royalists joined the British camp and were formed into various corps;[2 - "Annual Register," 1779, Beatson's "Memoirs," Gordon's "History of the American War," etc. etc.] and the South Carolina Regiment is first mentioned as taking part in the action at Briar Creek on the 3rd of March, 1779,[3 - Beatson's "Naval and Military Memoirs," vol. iv. p. 492.] the corps then being, according to Major-General Prevost's despatch, about 100 strong. The action at Briar Creek occurred as follows:
In the early part of 1779, General Prevost's[4 - Major-General Prevost had come from Florida and assumed command in January.] force was distributed in posts along the frontier of Georgia; Hudson's Ferry, twenty-four miles above Savannah, being the upper extremity of the chain. Watching these posts was the American general, Lincoln, with the main body of the American Army of the South, at Purrysburgh, about twenty miles above Savannah, and General Ashe, who was posted with about 2000 of the Militia of North and South Carolina and Georgia, at Briar Creek, near the point where it falls into the Savannah River.
General Ashe's position appeared most secure, his left being covered by the Savannah with its marshes, and his front by Briar Creek, which was about twenty feet broad, and unfordable at that point and for several miles above it; nevertheless, General Prevost determined to surprise him. For the purpose of amusing General Lincoln, he made a show of an intention to pass the river; and, in order to occupy the attention of Ashe, he ordered a party to appear in his front, on the opposite side of Briar Creek. Meanwhile General Prevost, with 900 chosen men, made an extensive circuit, passed Briar Creek fifteen miles above the American position, gained their rear unperceived, and was almost in their camp before they discovered his approach. The surprise was as complete as could be wished. Whole regiments fled without firing a shot, and numbers without even attempting to seize their arms; they ran in their confusion into the marsh, and swam across the river, in which numbers of them were drowned. The Continental troops, under General Elbert, and a regiment of North Carolina Militia, alone offered resistance; but they were not long able to maintain the unequal conflict, and, being overpowered, were compelled to surrender. The Americans lost from 300 to 400 men, and seven pieces of cannon. The British lost five men killed, and one officer and ten men wounded.
After this success, the British and American forces remained on opposite sides of the River Savannah, until the end of April, when General Lincoln, thinking the swollen state of the river and the inundation of the marshes was sufficient protection for the lower districts, withdrew his forces further inland, leaving General Moultrie with 1000 men at Black Swamp. By this movement Lincoln left Charlestown exposed to the British. General Prevost at once took advantage of this, and, on the 29th of April, suddenly crossed the river, near Purrysburgh, with 2500 men, among whom was the South Carolina Regiment, which had been considerably increased by accessions of loyalists and freed negroes.
General Prevost advanced rapidly into the country, the militia under Moultrie, who had considered the swamps impassable, offering but a feeble resistance, and retiring hastily, destroying the bridges in their rear. On the 11th of May, the British force crossed the Ashley River a few miles above Charlestown, and, advancing along the neck formed by the Ashley and Cooper Rivers, established itself at a little more than cannon-shot from the city. A continued succession of skirmishes took place on that day and the ensuing night, and on the following morning Charlestown was summoned to surrender.
Negotiations were broken off in the evening, much to the disappointment of the British general, who had been led to suppose that a large proportion of the inhabitants were favourable to the royal cause, and that the city would fall easily into his hands. He now found himself in a dangerous predicament. He was without siege guns, before lines defended by a considerable force of artillery, and flanked by shipping; he was involved in a labyrinth of creeks and rivers, where a defeat would have been fatal, and General Lincoln with a force equal, if not superior to his own, was fast approaching for the relief of the city. Taking all this into consideration, General Prevost prudently struck camp that night, and, under cover of the darkness, the direct line of retreat on Savannah being closed, returned to the south side of the Ashley River. From thence the army passed to the islands of St. James and St. John, lying to the southward of Charlestown harbour, and commencing that succession of islands and creeks which extends along the coast from Charlestown to Savannah.
In these islands the army awaited supplies from New York, of which it was much in need; and, on the arrival of two frigates, it commenced to move to the island of Port Royal, which at the same time would afford good quarters for the troops during the intense heats, and, from its vicinity to Savannah, and its excellent harbour, was the best position that could be chosen for covering Georgia.
Directly General Lincoln discovered what was taking place, he advanced to attack. St. John's Island is separated from the mainland by a narrow inlet, called Stono River, and communication between the mainland and the island was kept up by a ferry. On the mainland, at this ferry, General Prevost had established a post, consisting of three redoubts, joined by lines of communication; and, to cover the movement of the army to Port Royal Island, he here posted Lieutenant-Colonel Maitland with the 1st Battalion of the 71st Regiment, a weak battalion of Hessians, the North Carolina Regiment, and the South Carolina Regiment, amounting in the whole to about 800 men.


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South African student protesters again seek to disrupt
Students from the University of Cape Town protest for free education by disrupting classes in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. The University of Cape Town re-opened Monday after closing because of security concerns, but police were on campus and used a stun grenade to disperse protesters outside a university building. Another building was evacuated because of vandalism by protesters who tossed sewage in the corridors, said the statement. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
A policeman puts his hand outside his van while providing security at the University of Cape Town, as students protest for free education by disrupting classes in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. The University of Cape Town re-opened Monday after closing because of security concerns, but police were on campus and used a stun grenade to disperse protesters outside a university building. Another building was evacuated because of vandalism by protesters who tossed sewage in the corridors, said the statement. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
Students from the University of Cape Town gather as they take part in a protest for free education by disrupting classes in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. The University of Cape Town re-opened Monday after closing because of security concerns, but police were on campus and used a stun grenade to disperse protesters outside a university building. Another building was evacuated because of vandalism by protesters who tossed sewage in the corridors, said the statement. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Several South African universities have reported violent protests by demonstrators who are persisting in efforts to disrupt classes as part of a campaign for free education.
The University of Cape Town and Rhodes University in the city of Grahamstown are among institutions that reported Tuesday on alleged vandalism and stone-throwing by protesters.
The University of Cape Town says there have been many reports of confrontations between protesters, people who oppose the disruptions, and private security guards on campus. It says police have also been involved, setting off two stun grenades and a smoke grenade to disperse protesters.
Protests have been held on numerous South African campuses since last month. While there is widespread support for the goal of free education, many students also want to complete their studies.

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It was scheduled at the busiest travel time of the month, December holidays. A lot of passengers including their dogs and cats were in the airport and I felt quiet blank staring at all the people. I just recently had the challenge to brought back the cadaver of my OFW (Overseas Filipino Worker) nephew from Taiwan back to Manila due to an accident. He just started work there in a month. My apologies for starting my blog with this. This is what I feel at the moment. I still feel the heaviness inside of me.
The feeling of excitement was overwhelmed by that experience. I had mixed emotions as I stepped into the airport and on the plane.
Anyway, when I entered the plane, I saw fellow passengers smiling. I breathed and said to myself "move on this time and smile too". On the way to my seat, I saw there is a small video screen at the back of each headboard seat. I smiled.
I checked mine in front of me and they call it KrisWorld entertainment system. We were given headsets on board and I am expecting something for the use of this.
I was so happy to see that there is an entertainment system because I am unreasonably bored during flights. This KrisWorld entertainment is complete with movies, TV shows, video games, music and come also in may languages.
There is also an interactive map in this Krisworld. One can see where is the location of the plane from the takeoff and from where it is heading real time.
Below the KrisWorld entertainment screen is a Magazine Rack that has 3-4 magazines which one can read during the trip. On the picture above, there is a folding table which one can use for laptop but this is mainly used as a table for eating on short flights.
I have limbs which numb easily so I need a longer leg space. I need to move and bend and stretch my legs from time to time. This is no problem with the seat I had with Singapore airlines. It has enough space and length for me to move my legs. In this flight, I also learned the technique of going to the bathroom just to also have my legs stretched out. And to have a picture of what is inside in the common toilets. There are footrests also on the seats. I think this suits all common leg lengths as well. I found it comfortable. I occasionally swing my foot while listening to my Spanish music from Krisworld Entertainment. At that moment I to felt settled down and relaxed.
We were given hot towelletes, I said to myself, "wow, thank you". I immediately put it on my face, laid back and the loosen up feeling is heaven. like it so much. I am a fan of salon massage where hot towels are a source of comforts and cozy feeling. After like 10 seconds, my cousin elbowed me. The flight stewardess was there to collect it back. I noticed most passengers used it to clean hands and so I quickly did the same. Later on, I searched for it and learned this is "pre-moistened hot towelettes" or air-travel international-travel hygiene towels. Anyway, the feeling of having short salon thingy is heaven for me considering the hassles from Taiwan.
Now, enough with the towelletes, THE FOOD.
There was two food selection. Luckily the selection is pretty delicious. Of course, I craved for rice. So when I saw the rice with fried "talong" /eggplant with fresh tomato and the adobo, I chose it. I was still waiting for the Singapore Airlines to identify this menu thru their chat service. They asked to chose which drink to take, either orange juice or coffee. I chose both. Coffee is something I can't resist in my life but I take it moderately. I take one only in a day before I start my day or middle of the day. The sliced fruit on the side is papaya and pineapple, I am not really sure actually but I will update this once I got a response from Singapore Airlines to chat service. Despite flying economy, I am satisfied with the selection of food.
This is the other selection. You may check the picture below and name it. Overall the flight is comfortable and with a smooth landing. Except for the male flight attendant who looked angry when he saw my luggage in the hallway. I was waiting for the other passenger to finish putting his luggage in the upper bin when he saw my luggage and he asked me to help him put my luggage in the upper bin. He has a stern face. I can't forget his face until now.
I learned from a fellow traveler in this flight that meals can be pre-ordered. Singapore Airlines allows one to specify any dietary restrictions that one can have. It can be Halal food, no nuts diet, no dairy, no sugar etc.
It was December so every corner of the airport was extremely designed with Christmas decorations. I am always enchanted with Christmas/ Holiday decorations so it feels like I was in the cloud to see those well-designed decorations all over the airport.
It's a good thing that my sponsor chose we flew via Singapore Airlines. The in-flight entertainer and good food really cheered me up. The flight was smooth and turbulent fee. To be able to relax towards the flight destination and overwhelmed with the holiday decoration at Changi airport is a well-spent start of my journey to Singapore.
Do you have any particular Holiday decorations you would want to share with us? Are there Holiday decorations in your town or street? Let me know so we can feature it here too.
One thing one cannot miss to see and have a picture taken upon arrival at the Changi Airport's Social Tree.


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About Dr. Pompa
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01: The Hunter-Gatherer Society
02: Diet Restriction and Weight Loss
03: Intermittent Fasting
04: Ketosis for Health, Mind and Body
05: The Gluten Myth
06: Sun and Skin Cancer Myths
07: When Detox is Dangerous
08: Coconut Oil, Healthy or Not?
09: What is Diet Variation?
10: Chronic Pain
11: Amalgam Fillings
12: Anti Aging and Longevity
13: Generational Toxicity
14: Dangers of Mold
15: Truth About GMOs
16: The Effects of EMFs
17: Gluten Myths
18: Is Your Fish Oil Safe
19: Microbiome
20: Childhood Cancer
21: Toxic Generation
22: Mouth Toxicity
23: Weight Loss Resistance
24: Is Gluten Free Healthy?
25: Dental Dangers
26: Top 12 Biohacks for Your Health
27: Best Exercise to Promote Weight Loss
28: Hormone Optimization
29: From Pain to Purpose
30: From Pain to Purpose – Part 2
31: Eat Fat to Lose Weight
32: Happiness and Health
33: Mental Health and Psychotropic Drugs
34: Grounding and EMFs
35: Fighting the Flu
36: How to Raise Healthy Kids
37: How to Raise Healthy Kids – Part 2
38: Lyme Disease
39: Fasting Tips
40: Secrets to Longevity
41: Creating a Healthy Home
42: Special Guest Chris Zaino
43: Women and Fasting
44: Ground Zero of Lyme Disease
45: True Cellular Detox
46: Longevity and Intermittent Fasting
47: Water Fasting
48: Water
49: Secrets to a Modern Healthy Lifestyle
50: Heart Disease
51: Kava
52: Fasting
53: Flu Shots
54: SIBO
56: Stem Cell Therapy
57: Bio Hack Your Muscles with Resistance Band Training
58: Bio Hacks to Prevent Holiday Weight Gain
59: Holiday Bio Hacking Part 2
60: Stem Cell Therapy Part 2
61: Creating a Healthy & Nontoxic Home
62: Gut Health and Healing
63: Fasting For a Purpose
64: Fat
65: Beyond Fasting
66: The Bodily Effects of Fasting
67: Bio Hack Your Pain
68: New Product Launches
69: Kava Pt. 2
70: Adaptation
71: Brain Fog
72: Five-Day Fasting Effects
73: Seasonal Allergies
74: Hydration
75: Hydration – Part 2
76: Chronic Fatigue
77: Chronic Fatigue Pt 2
78: Daniel's Journey of Recovery
79: Lymphatic Bio-Regulatory Medicine
Dr. Daniel Pompa, D.PSc.
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Episode 21: Toxic Generation
Nov 4, 2017 | Posted by	Health Hunters | Health Hunters	|
Warren:
Oh, man, Dr. Pompa, this is one of those topics we're going to dive into in the health hunter world. Thanks for joining us, by the way, here at Health Hunters. This one's an emotional one for many of us, because there's so much going on right now, because we're, one, all very busy, so we tend to do things that may not be in the best interest of our children, but that's not the biggest problem, is it, Dr. Pompa? It's their health, this generation, the generation to come. We have something we need to discover here on Health Hunters today. Let's dive into this topic, the toxic—both with immediate generation and then moving all the way into millennials and some of the challenges that we all face as parents in the workplace, how to deal with this.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, look, your daughter's there with you today for this show.
She's crying out, and she's saying, daddy, movie, daddy, movie. I try not to let my children be on devices, because they don't know how to interact. Yeah, see, daddy, movie. Daddy screwed up, because I was so busy with work, I neglected to get a movie ready for her, so now she's joining us on the show.
Yeah, so like I said, I think she might have some insight to the show. However, probably the movie is her biggest interest, not the status of her health or the next generation's health, but we'll see. We'll wait. If there's something very intelligent, by all means, put that mic up to her face and let her talk. Actually, let's just see what comes out. I think it's going to be fun anyway.
This topic, it really lays deep in my heart, because my kids are older than yours. I have two 21-year-olds, a 19, a 17, and about to be 14, so with the feedback—and we got into the conversation again yesterday about their friends, their health, and my son had a friend over, and they were just saying, you have no idea—he was saying, Dr. Pompa, you have no idea. All of our friends are on medications. All. I said, oh, come on, all of them? All of them. Not only that, that generation is taking Adderall as just—it's commonplace. Now, again, okay, I live more on the West Coast, so it may be more of a West Coast thing. I don't know. I haven't been on the East Coast for five years. However, they take Adderall to stimulate, to study, to awaken, because none of them can sleep normal. They're sleeping all the time. They're not recovering. They're not going into delta sleep, which we'll talk about. Then, they use marijuana to bring it down, because of course you can't just stay in that state, so they're using marijuana to mask symptoms, to try to sleep, and other things. Okay, but these are the common—these are the ones that are considered normal and okay, and everybody's doing it.
Oh, and that doesn't include the list of psychotropic drugs that they're all on, and by the way, here in Utah, last night, there was a shooting at the University of Utah, and this, again, more commonplace. When we look even at the shooter that did the shooting at Vegas, months before, he was put on psychotropic drugs. By the way, whether you understand it or not, it's the common thread into all of the shootings, the psychotropic drugs, and yet we have a mass population taking these things. I think the question, then, is what happened, what's going on, why the need for the drugs, the stimulants, the downers, the uppers, the meds. What the hell is happening?
I think if we start at your daughter's age that's somewhere on your lap or running around you right now, maybe we can tap in to some of the causes, because as we believe, if you eliminate the causes, then we can have a different effect down the road. However, all the medication is simply dealing with the effect of something upstream, deep rooted, so we're medicating, using stimulants, downers, uppers, psychotropics, all the medications as a coverup of the effect, but what in the world is causing this to happen? We didn't need that stuff as kids, Warren, when we were growing up. What changed? That's what we have to get into.
It's unfortunate. I think so many things have changed, and I think our generation also passed on some things that we shouldn't have as well. I think there's also a double standard today almost for what parents to be, and I think the pressure we put on ourselves, I think, to be overachievers in America versus going to Europe. I could go on and on, so let's just pick one of them to start out with. Let's start out with the underlying health challenges that children have today and why. As a health hunter, we want to know the cause. We want to know so we can get to the true solution, so let's start with children from womb, coming out of the womb. What's going on with them that they're so challenged so that, when they get diagnosed, maybe some of them rightfully so, with major health challenges, but then they're medicating? It's like putting a sticker over the—your engine light's on, you have no oil, but you cover it up, yet the damage is still happening to that's child brain, to that child's digestion, to their cells, and that's where the medication is not fixing the problem.
I've been talking a lot, even more in the public, about this generational toxicity issue, right? I'm about to interview someone on Cell TV, so for the last couple weeks, I've been kind of reading his stuff, his book, his website, just educating myself on something called transgenerational epigenetics, and that's his topic. I sought him out, because this is kind of like, oh, my gosh, this is what I've been talking about. Something I've learned from some of his work is that oftentimes the third generation actually gets hit the hardest, so if you look at what's happening, and Warren, you've heard me speak about this, that the number one cause of high lead is our mothers and our mother's mother. In other words, it's physically inherited from grandma to mom to the baby, four generations, estimated, meaning if we got rid of all the lead exposures today, it would take four generations to basically breed it out.
By the way, I showed multiple studies on mercury as well, the Tagum study, the Drasch study. The number of fillings, ladies, in your mouth, the silver fillings, which leach mercury, because it's 50 percent mercury, is proportional to how much mercury we're finding in the babies' brains in utero, so arguably then, we have the physical inheritance of lead and mercury in utero, starting life that way, not to mention the overvaccinations that contain aluminum and mercury and other toxins that we're putting into our children later and all the other exposures. We're starting life with this.
Now, there's another thing that he talks about, generational epigenetics transferred from one generation to the next, meaning certain genes got turned on in our grandmother. Now, that may not have manifested much in our mother, but the next generation, it manifests bigtime, so whether it's thyroid condition, whether it's diabetes, obesity, psychological problems, bipolar, it oftentimes can skip a generation, and it's inherited, then, down the road. It often takes that four generations, again, to change the epigenome, if at all. We know that we can turn them on. We know that we can turn the genes off.
Okay, the point is this, though. I think, with this generation, no doubt they're getting hit the hardest with the transfer of toxins from mom to baby from grandma, because they grew up in the lead generation, the mercury generation, and they're getting hit the hardest with this transfer of genes being turned on. Transgenerational epigenetics. Put it together. Things are happening today that we need to talk about on the next segment, because it's the perfect storm.
We're back, and I was just distracted with my daughter, but that doesn't mean we're not going to have a great show.
Put the mic in front of her. Let's see what comes out.
What do you want to say? Talk here. Say something. No, she doesn't want to talk. We'll come back to you.
She'll have something to say in about five minutes.
Yeah, as soon as I move my gaze away, because that's what children want, see? They want attention.
They want your attention, and that's one of the issues, though. I don't know if we're going to get into that, but even though it's health hunter topics—yeah, so when you get motivated in America, and you want to achieve so much, but there's always a cost to everything that you do. You're almost cheating on your family, so when you work too much, you're cheating on them. They psychologically feel cheated upon, no matter what you do, what you say, it's your actions and time that matters. In their minds, they're saying, oh, he likes work better than us, every single time you say, I've got to do this.
The balance is sometimes saying—and this is a good solution. I know we're not into solutions. That's usually the last segment, but the good solution is, when you have something to do, you go, you know what? I'm not going to do this, if it's work, and I'm going to choose you. Watch your children light up, and you have to balance that out, so it should be one to one, because we all have to work. We all have to make a living, so that's one of the things, but if that child doesn't feel loved, they're going to get love somewhere else. We have a love bucket that we all need to feel fulfilled and have purpose, so you've got to fill into your kids, because that, even though it's not a health-related issue, it's a psychological-related issue, and it'll come back to bite you as well, because as we all teach, it's not just toxicity, it's emotional toxicity, and it's physical toxicity, whatever it may be, so anyway.
Yeah. That's right.
I don't want to jump topics. We were in—I thought you were going to say transgender toxicity, but that's probably not—
Transgenerational.
Transgenerational, but the transgender thing may be a genetic issue from toxicity as well. Isn't that—
It absolutely is in a lot of papers and theories at this point that, no doubt, those genes could be turned on. The old dogma was, oh, it's just genetic, meaning there's nothing you can do about it. Your mom had it, your dad had it, you have it now. We know that's very little of disease today. There's certain things that are, something that messes up a chromosome, 21, for example. You have Down syndrome, so pure genetic turned on, more damage to the gene, etc., but that's not the case with most conditions. Most conditions, there's something called epigenetics, meaning it lies above the gene. It is really for—you have to understand.
I'm not going to get into this whole epigenetic topic here. It's not the point, but all humans, we have about 25 thousand gene. That's it. We thought it was hundreds of thousands, and then the Genome Project showed otherwise. We have about the same amount as a rat or a mouse, so we thought we'd have all these genes compared to them. We didn't. It's the fact that we have an epigenetic thing, meaning what lies above our genes. It gives us all this further function and higher brain intellect and all this that makes us much better than a mouse, so we think. The point is that these genes turn on, so the reason humans—people don't get this, but we have 99.8 percent the same genes, you and I, Warren, you and the listeners. What? Wait a minute. Warren, you look so different than me. Your nose, your eyes, your hair, all these things.
Thank God, right, Dr. Pompa?
See? How do you say that? The point is it's the epigenetics, meaning it's what above the gene that makes us look so different, feel so different, act so different. That means that these genes are turned on and off, so environmental factors—you said it. Lack of love, emotional stuff, physical stuff, and chemical stuff can turn on these genes for better or for worse. This has been the science for the last 20, really ten years even, but this is what we know. These genes can be turned on. Yeah, obesity can be triggered two generations up. Now, all of a sudden, you're a teenager going, I eat better than my friends, but I'm overweight. Gene turned on, right? What's not being discussed is the fact that these genes can be turned off. The point is, we have to look at the factors, environmental, physical, chemical, emotional, that turn genes on and off, and then we have some explanation, some causative factors, as far as why we're seeing so much happening in this generation.
We're going to get to some solutions, because we can turn these things off that are triggered, so you're not the destiny—your DNA is not your destiny. You're not the destiny of your DNA. That's the good news.
I remember that Time.
That was Time Magazine, Warren. Exactly right. I don't know. Was that five years ago?
Still, that culture code—daddy, hold you? Okay. That belief system, that's an old dogma, right? People are still living their lives today by that dogma.
That your genes are your destiny. It's so replete in the culture, and there's magazine—it's still new news. It's still being printed in Time Magazine. They come out with new articles on this stuff. It's still in science, in this epigenetic research. Yeah, that's a buggy bug. What do we—let me—I got distracted again. You're so cute. She's so cute, man, and I get—here's the thing. Let me digress. The dopamine spike that I get from my daughter in the morning is much higher than any opioid or whatever is out there to do it, so if you can do that, guys, if you can find a way to get your dopamine spike from your children, and then, as they say, you turn into teenagers, and all the dopamine spikes are now [00:16:16], but I don't know that to be true. I'm living in la-la-land. I visited a friend in Billings, Montana, the other day. He's like, how old are your kids? Two and six. He's like, ah, you haven't started yet, have you? I'm like, I guess not.
Yeah, that does go away, unfortunately, but ride it when you can. They become teenagers. They give you dopamine spikes every once in a while but not just that visual, like you see that cute, little girl with those pudgy, little arms and legs. It's like, that's a dopamine spike just looking at her. Your teenagers don't do that for you anymore. Matter of fact, sometimes it's the opposite. It's like, oh, gosh.
They become full-time teachers for you.
Yeah, it's different, but this topic—you were going somewhere. I don't want to—
What I wanted to kind of go into is—so there's all these health issues, and what other things are affecting this generation? We're health hunters. We usually discuss the health side, but what about the psychological side of how these children are raised? What about the lack of socialization and touch that's happening inside their lives? They're glued on their computers, phones. Let's talk about their structural spine. As a previously licensed chiropractor, you treat people with these—I remember children, Dr. Pompa, in your office with testimonies of hormones coming into balance, thyroid turning back on, just from fixing the structure of their neck, and now that's a big issue. There's all these other causes. I would say—
There's cause for that, too, by the way, why kids are so subluxated, as we call it. Misaligned spines causing nerve interference, and births have a lot to do with that.
Yeah, there's so much going on, and I can't wait to get into solutions, because there's so much hope. There's so many things that we can do for this generation, but what do parents do? We feel like we're overwhelmed. It's like, there's so many problems. My kid shouldn't wear a backpack, and he shouldn't eat sugar. It's like, how the frick am I going to get through the day? If I had to do everything right, it's too overwhelming.
There's simple solutions.
Let's talk about some of those, because I'm getting depressed. Just kidding.
All right, welcome back, health hunters. Thanks for the announcements from our sponsors. We love you. Health Hunters is a growing group and audience, and we couldn't do it without you guys. Dan, we talk a lot about this on other shows, all the problems of toxicity. We've hit on epigenetics. I think you opened some new understanding into that, even on this show, because of some of the research you've been doing as you dig as a complete and total health hunter. What are some of the other things that are the big ones?
I really have to go with toxicity being a huge one, the abundance and overwhelming amount of vaccinations that aren't giving these children a chance out the door, the 14 amalgam fillings that my mom had that went right into my brain that led to a litany of allergies and destroying my microbiome with antibiotics with no solution, with no buffer, or taking a certain probiotic. If it isn't an emergency, what you—there's so many things you can do today if you're educated. That's why everyone's listening to this, but what are some of the other major ones as well?
Yeah, you hit on one that I really wanted to go into there and is another big, huge causative factor that this generation is really being affected by, and that's a disruption of what we call the microbiome, meaning your gut bacteria, we've learned, plays a major role in how your actual brain works. There's certain bacteria you have in your gut that need to be there in certain numbers to produce certain brain chemicals that you need just to feel normal, feel good, dopamine, serotonin. All of those are actually produced in the gut, so when the bacteria is disrupted, your brain doesn't work.
What's happening to this generation? A few things. You actually hit on one, right? The overuse of antibiotics. That came after World War II, the antibiotics generation. We literally thought we had done it. We thought we conquered all disease, if not most disease anyway, and we realize now that we've actually created more disease because of antibiotics. Of course, certain conditions, people would've died without antibiotics, but according to experts, we actually created more disease because of them. Wow, that's a shocker, and then all these soaps, the antibacterial soaps, the hand sanitizers, every church, everything. Hand sanitizers. We are creating—we've just learned this, right? We're creating a new problem of resistant bacteria, wiping out our own bacteria that we didn't realize were needed for normal brain function, normal immune function. Now, we're going, oh, my gosh, we really fouled this up.
It's part of the reason why kids need Adderall, part of the reason why kids need psychotropic drugs, etcetera. Of course, the toxicity that's entering their brain, and then there's another problem, glyphosate being sprayed on our food since the late 80s, 90s, through today and increasing. This chemical is known to kill certain bacteria that we know are needed to make these brain chemicals. It's known to cause something called leaky gut, which is driving autoimmune, and it's another epidemic in this generation. It's known to disrupt the mitochondria, where you make cellular energy, and in a 2012 study from senior scientist at MIT, Stephanie Senna, she showed this chemical is allowing the heavy metals like lead, mercury, aluminum that we're being exposed to in utero and later in life through vaccines, etc., allowing it to cross deeper into our brain.
We look at this generation, the millennials, and we wonder how in the world are we looking at statistics—oh, by the way, out of the University of Virginia, they looked at kids, adults actually, over the age of 28 in this study. One hundred percent of them had signs of dementia. These are the numbers. It's estimated, by 2032, if statistics stay the same, one in two kids on the autism spectrum. You look at all of these numbers. You say, man, the destiny of this country is what? I'm telling you, the answers are, number one, simple lifestyle changes that we all need to make, model for our children. Cellular detox, of course. That's what we hang our hat on. That's what saved your life and mine, that we teach to doctors. No doubt. Go and learn this stuff. Go to our website. My gosh, I've interviewed experts from all over the world. I've written articles about this, one after another. Educate yourself, because there's a way to get this stuff out of our brains. We're teaching doctors around the country. Warren markets to doctors to put people butts in seats so we can teach them what saved our life and what they need in their practice to make a difference in this epidemic. It's not as simple as doing the colon cleanse and the detox that most of you are probably thinking of as detox. It's not so simple. This stuff is in the brains of our children and us, and we have to go about it correctly. There's a way, and I can't discuss it all in one show. You're going to have to take that step and educate yourselves, but it starts with a lot of avoidance, and we're going to talk more about that in the segment.
I want to open the door to one more thing, because you started the show with it. You were concerned about the electromagnetic frequencies your daughter was going to get from the iPad, etcetera. You monitor that, because it's another hidden exposure, toxic exposure, that this generation is having that we did not have, and that is the amount of EMFs, they're called, electromagnetic frequencies that disrupt the cell, the cell function, the mitochondria, all of these things we're talking about. It is a perfect storm, so Warren, how do you do it? My kids didn't have those iPads. They now walk around with their stinking phones in front of their face 24/7, but when they were young—
They're so intrigued by them. They're so intrigued by them, and I'm training—the parents are training the children, like me. I feel so bad. I'm so much on my phone, because I do a lot of business and life on my phone, and they want it. They want to look at pictures, and they're so digitally dialed in. My 2-year-old's working my phone. She knows how to plug into things that she wants. She knows how to—and it's such a part of their culture, and a lot of parents, because we're busy, and we're tired, and we're sick and toxic ourselves, so we just throw them on the iPad. We jjust need a break, right? We do that. On airplanes, for us.
Yeah, of course.
On car trips. When life's overwhelming, and we need to get some work done around the house, but that's not that often, maybe once a month. When we're not feeling—when we're sick ourselves, we'll throw them on an iPad, but what we do to protect them from EMF is we try to download the movies, of course, put it on airplane mode so that the movies are downloaded and/or we have little EMF Faraday cage blankets that we've trained them to use if they want to watch their iPad and we catch them. We have to remind them a lot, but that's another trick, using a—we get organic ones, but there's little Faraday cage EMF-blocking blankets that block that EMF from crushing your child's organs and tissues.
Those are two of the things that we do, and if you can get in airplane mode, you're in a good place, but if you can't, use the Faraday cage.
[00:26:29] I was just going to give us—because you offered something out there. We should put this in the show notes, but it's lessemf.com. It's just a host of things that—simple solutions to mitigate some of these issues, and some of them are very, very simple that you can do for your kids.
There you go. Yep. Get those resources, and my daughter's very excited right now, because her thing did turn back on. Her iPad was dead, and now she's been patiently waiting. I can't get it to work, so I don't know. The other big issue with the iPad, obviously, the neck—well, actually, there's two big issues in my opinion. One, what it does to their neck, and two, what it does for the decrease in socialization. When we're outside, and I think it adds into the microbiome issue—we ran around and played with dogs. We got out in the dirt. We were with animals. We were more of a farm generation, right? Many of us, especially our parents before us, a lot of them lived in areas where there was farms. You're playing outside. You're in the local park. You're getting dirty. You're eating dirt. Getting iPads is keeping kids inside and not outside where there's sunshine, so you have the lack of good environmental exposures, and then you have what it does to their neck and their spine and how that affects the nervous system in so many different ways.
We better talk solutions.
Let's get into that when we get right back. Yeah.
We've got kids. We've got dogs. It's a real show, folks.
We got the iPad working, and it's the last segment, so let's take advantage of this.
Let's do two extra now.
Yeah, let's do two extra segments, because now I put a distraction in place, and this is—I use iPads in case of emergency. This happens to be one. My wife had a doctor's appointment. What are you going to do? She's off.
I mentioned some big issues there, right, Dr. Pompa? What are some of the solutions? We're talking microbiome. How can we fix the microbiome? How can we get their necks and spines in a good place to where they're not under so much nerve interference or nerve stress? I remember when you used to adjust me back in the day. I would be in this hypercortisol state. I would be in a—I don't know if it's—you're the doctor here, so autonomic—or I was in sympathetic or parasympathetic. You would adjust me. I would calm down and get into parasympathetic. It was such a game-changer for me, and I always love talking about chiropractic. Of course, it's part of the core beliefs of what we found as health hunters to be true and to make a difference.
Yeah, most people think of chiropractors as pain, so why would a child need a chiropractor? It's the structure. The misalignments happen far before pain. You see kids walking around with backpacks, as you mentioned. It forces the head forward. It's called anterior head positioning. That stretches the spinal cord, which causes all types of neurological issues. It's straining the nerve system, which strains the immune system. Find a chiropractor. There's a simple solution. Not for pain but to keep these misalignments out of your children. My gosh, getting them adjusted once a week, twice a month, once a month. Any of that, depending on your child, could be transformative for their health, not their pain, their health. The birth process, 27 percent, I think, are C-sections now. They're pulling from the child's head. Guaranteed misalignment. You lose the cervical curve. It creates massive—excuse me—subluxations in their spine. It sets them up for failure later. Bad stuff, so chiropractor, simple solution.
For EMFs, the safer cases, the little Faraday blankets. These things can be huge. Limit their time on the EMFs, because it does cause cellular damage, inflammation, function, oxidative stress, all of it. Bad stuff.
In your mind, when you know, my children need to spend more time outside, you need to spend more time outside, too. Go outside. Run around.
Get in the sun. It offsets a lot—yeah, the dirt you mentioned, right? It's like, without even knowing it, you're setting out solutions, because the dirt carries bacteria. We realize now, running from dirt was a bad thing. Just make sure it doesn't have glyphosate sprayed on it. Yeah, so playing in dirt makes a healthier microbiome, being exposed to pets, cats, animals. Get a dog. Get a cat. Get some animals in the house. No doubt, that's probably the number one thing you can do for your microbiome.
They're going outside.
They're going outside. They're getting dirty. They're getting bacteria from other dogs, and they're—
The diversity of your bacteria is really what dominates your health and no allergies later, better immune system, warding off autoimmune conditions. Pets carry so many different bacteria than humans, so it creates diversity. Arguably, they're actually cleaner than humans, but the point is that you need that. You need to be exposed to that, and that's what it offers as well. Okay.
Get your kids on—take a vacation, because that's good for you, too. Even if you don't have a lot of extra cash, you can go on vacations really inexpensive today, things that—
They're called staycations.
Yeah, staycations. There's so many ways. You can turn a business trip into it, if you're an entrepreneur. You can obviously find really inexpensive trips to places like Orlando.
Simon and I go camping. We go camping in the summer. We love it. It's fun.
You've got to do those things. Yeah.
Yeah, go camping in the woods. Get in the sun. Get in the water. There's something in water actually, swimming in lakes, that's—
More microbriome.
It's called bacteriophage, and these bacteriophage, we've now learned, ward off bad guys in your gut, and when you're swimming in these things, you're getting a lot of these bacteriophage. Again, you have to choose your life. There could be a lot of runoff in a certain lake. You've got to watch. If there's farms upstream, I wouldn't do it, so be a little choosy. Okay, so this is [00:32:42].
I want to talk—I want to say one—I'm going to tell you one quick story, because I don't want to interrupt, and it's really funny.
Fire away.
My dad. You know my dad, right? He's part of the antimicrobial generation.
They were using microbiome soap. They were slathering us, even with cuts and stuff, with mercurochrome, whatever, iodine stuff, and everything was antiseptic this, antiseptic this, and Clorox was the magic healer of all, right? Clorox into our water well when we thought there might've been an animal that fell into it, because we lived in the country, so Clorox for everything. Clorox was the solution for poison ivy. Clorox was the solution for cuts and scrapes, and then Clorox was the solution to put in your bathtub just to be good for the water. You put it in there. That's good for your body. You're killing off your bugs on your body from being outside in the dirt. We want to kill those all off.
My dad stayed with us recently, and he's just like, Warren, Warren, I have the magic thing. This is what you need to do. Your water's a little too soft, so what you need to do is you need to take a little bit of Epsom salt, just a little bit, and put it in there and then just a small amount, just a couple capfuls of Clorox. That's the secret trick. You need to do that every day, because that's good, and it just takes that itch away. I have that itch all over my skin, and I've got to put that Clorox in there, so he's asking us for Clorox. I'm like, we don't have Clorox. The better solution was vinegar, so we used vinegar, so now he's like, that's the magic potion. If you've got itchy skin, use a little vinegar in your bath water. I don't know. It's not part of mine, but that's the generation, man. They thought the Clorox and killing off every bacteria on your skin, which is the very reason kids have so many skin conditions.
Acne, and what's the one that's scabbing and all that. Starts with an S, right?
Scabies?
Not scabies.
That just popped into my mind. I had to say it, even though I knew it was wrong. Yeah, you have eczema. You have—
Eczema, that's the one. Why did I think it started with an S?
I don't know. Scabies was more funny. Anyway, look, I also—I want to throw a few products out there, because I know everyone likes that. There's one that really can offset some of this glyphosate, that chemical that's being sprayed on all our foods. It's a product called Restore, and episode 110 on Cell TV, if you want to know more about it, but it closes the tight junctions, even in the presence of glyphosate. It helps your good bacteria communicate with one another. Very, very good product. I'm not a fan of just throwing—most people that come to us and our doctors, they've been on the same probiotic. If you're on a probiotic, switch it around. Move it around. Those bacteria are good, but people stay on them, and they create monocultures, it's called, so change your probiotics up. Again, it's not as simple as just taking a probiotic. You're talking about ten, 20 bacteria, when it's thousands and thousands, so mix it up. Eat fermented foods. Try some different bacteria that way. Fermented products are great.
Don't wash your organic vegetables, most of them, right?
Yep, absolutely.
Would you want to wash at all, organic vegetables?
No, you can just rinse the dirt off if you don't want to. Obviously, you don't want to crunch dirt, but there's still enough left there if you just use water. The bacteria would still be left there.
I'd like crunching the dirt, so is that okay?
It is, yeah. It's fine, if it's organic, so crunch the dirt. No doubt about it. You get some of that, especially in spinach, and you should only be ever eating organic spinach. It's one of the most toxic—spinach should always be organic. It's highly sprayed, highly. Same with strawberries. They absorb it.
I remember another subject, my mom. She washed all your vegetables, soaped the vegetables. Did your parents do that?
Just like, you've got to get every bit of dirt and bacteria.
Yeah, because again, that was the antibacterial generation, right? They grew up with antibiotics saving lives. Let's take it to the next level. Let's take it to our hands, our food, our everything. That's an antibacterial world.
Break that bad belief system is what we're trying to tell you.
Okay, so there's some bacteria products. Another one called MBC is a really good one, but again, rotate those things, so tip there. All right, that's the bacteria. Epigenetics I brought up in the beginning. I talked about turning off genes. We know more about that now than ever. Throw out a few products. Mors, M-O-R-S, it's a methylation product that's built around these methyl groups that we know can turn off these bad genes. Really, really important product. Very, very helpful. Part of our tools. The cell membrane is critical for turning off bad genes, so two products. One's called Vista, and another one's called Pureform. Love those products for the membrane. Critical for hormones and turning off bad genes.
I brought up these problems. We're trying to throw some solutions out here for your kids. What other problems did we bring up, Warren, because I don't want to—oh, we talked about the cellular detox. Cytodetox is an amazing product that's able to get into those membranes and pull some of these toxins out. Yeah, so all right, I wish I had time to give more, but those are—at least we hit the main solutions for the main problems we brought up.
Change their diet. Change their life. Get them outside. A little bit of detox, a little bit of chiropractic, some fermented foods, and you're going to have a different kid. Get rid of those sugars. Love you guys. Health hunters, unite. Get out there and make it happen, guys. Thanks so much for being on the show.
Woohoo.
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Western Montana winter in the valleys are typically mild with occasional drops in temperatures for short periods of time that would preclude their flying. In December, we can have valley fog that will also inhibit being able to get out of the Missoula valley, but that is minimal & variable. The lowest temperatures for leaving the Missoula Airport are 10-20 degrees, depending upon which airline that we choose for your area of the country. Summers do not often present problems in being able to ship your puppy, as we usually have a temperature drop to a cool and pleasant level at night, which is perfect for the early morning flights. Delta Airlines does offer a counter to counter program that is more expensive, but does allow for the pups to be able to reach their destination during the higher temperatures. We also have to ensure that temperatures for airline stops enroute also do not fall below 10-20 degrees or above the summer recommended high of 85 degrees. Again, their are some select airports around the country that have special summer programs.
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