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A sixsome reel is mentioned in a description of Scottish customs in the early 1820s and eightsome reels ( danced in squares like cotillions ) occur in some dance manuscripts of the era.
These usually require a group of eight people, a couple along each side . " Les Lanciers ", a descendant of the " quadrille ", and the " Eightsome Reel " are examples of this kind of dance.
He joins in, becoming more and more enthusiastic and recruiting more and more passersby to join, until by dawn the next morning, a crowd of Highlanders, Fusiliers who share the base with the Highlanders, some military policemen, members of the local populace, an Italian cafe proprietor, a few Senussi Arabs in burnouses, and three German prisoners of war make history by dancing'a one hundred and twenty-eightsome reel .'The General's inspection report'congratulated the battalion, and highly commended the pipe-sergeant on the standard of the officers'dancing .'The pipey's opinion was that as a dancer, the General was " no'bad . . . for a Campbell ."