| TAPS & THE LAST POSTS used to be British bugle calls and in the early part of the 19th Century the British Army decided to standardise it calls and dropped TAPS from its list. Now do you know were they got these names from?......Well when the British troops were overseas and far from home they would set up a bar with in the stockade or fort to pass the time as soldiers will. Of an evening when the guard was mounted the last guard would always be mounted by bar, which was the LAST POST, or they would play TAPS this was a signal for the taps on the beer barrels to be closed for another day. The British influence left American forces sticking with Taps, and Britain going along with the last post, mind you there is not to choose between them |