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| (Site of) Battles of Inverlochy (continued) |
and Knights, were left dead on the field, while the army was almost annihilated. The Earl of Mar escaped with the utmost difficulty, and was compelled to betake himself to the mountain fastness of the district, for safety and protection. Few particulars of this battle are recorded by the Scottish historians beyond the fact itself, and the results. Buchanan merely says of it that the Hebridean leader "having been informed that his opponents were struggling disorderly, and without encamping regularly, or setting watches, silently landed his men during the night, and attacked them unexpectedly, and made a great slaughter." Extract from Historical Tales of the Wars of Scotland. The extract of the battle, as a whole, is taken from Pinkerton's History of Scotland; Buchanan's History; Tytler's History; and Words Edition of Douglas Peerage. In the second battle fought here the Campbells under the Marquis of Argyle were completely routed, and a pool at the southwest end of the island is still called Poll nan Guin[bhoreich] (Pool of the Campbells) where several of them were drowned. "The plain extending from the river (Lochy) to the base of the mountain was the scene of sanguinary conflict between the Marquis of Montrose and the Marquis of Argyle, in the year 1645." "The country of Argyle had some time previously been ravaged by Montrose's army. Argyle applied to the Convention of Estates at Edinburgh for a military force to chastise the invader of the ancient territory of Maccallummore. His suit was granted; and a considerable force was raised under General Baillie and Sir John Urrie; whilst Argyle established his headquarters at Dumbarton, whither his clansmen and dependents, burning to revenge the wrongs and cruelties inflicted on them by the Jacobite army, flocked at the summons of their chief. Montrose was marching towards Inverness, when he received tidings of the contemplated movement against him. He lost no time in rallying his forces, many of his followers having gone home to deposit their plunder; and avoiding the ordinary paths through the Great Glen, he struck across the mountains, from Kilchumin, on Loch Ness, near the present Fort Augustus, leading his hardy Highlanders, as Sir |
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