Glencoe

Glencoe PDF Author: John Sadler
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Book Description
John Sadler has uncovered startling new evidence about this infamous event in Scottish history. The first book on the subject for 40 years.

Glencoe

Glencoe PDF Author: John Sadler
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Book Description
John Sadler has uncovered startling new evidence about this infamous event in Scottish history. The first book on the subject for 40 years.

The Massacre of Glencoe

The Massacre of Glencoe PDF Author: John Buchan
Publisher: Spellmount, Limited Publishers
ISBN: 9781862270626
Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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An historical account of the massacre, in February 1692, of the small Clan MacDonald of Glencoe by Campbell of Glenlyon's troops under orders from the English Government. It marked the beginning of the end of the clan system and the old, free Highland way of life.

Glencoe

Glencoe PDF Author: John Prebble
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141933143
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373

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'You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.' This was the treacherous and cold-blooded order ruthlessly carried out on 13 February 1692, when the Campbells slaughtered their hosts the MacDonalds at the Massacre of Glencoe. It was a bloody incident which had deep repercussions and was the beginning of the destruction of the Highlanders. John Prebble’s masterly description of the terrible events at Glencoe was praised as ‘Evocative and powerful’ in the Sunday Telegraph.

Corrag

Corrag PDF Author: Susan Fletcher
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 000735861X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 23

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A novel from Susan Fletcher, author of the bestselling Eve Green and Oystercatchers.

Lady of the Glen

Lady of the Glen PDF Author: Jennifer Roberson
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 0758292236
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 591

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Enemies become lovers in a divided Scotland in this “marvelous tale” of history and passion (Diana Gabaldon). From birth, Catriona Campbell and Alasdair Og MacDonald are enemies—for he is the second son of her clan’s most powerful foe. Yet from the moment they meet, they know they will lie in each other’s arms someday. Their love, though centuries forbidden, comes at the most dangerous of times, as they become pawns of war . . . and of history. For rebellion has been stirring, and under the orders of King William III, a bloody price will be paid at Glencoe . . . This “stirring” love story set against the backdrop of a notorious massacre is “well worth a Highland journey” (Kirkus Reviews). “Roberson’s world of 17th-century Scotland is atmospherically real.” —Publishers Weekly

Glencoe and the Indians

Glencoe and the Indians PDF Author: James Hunter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781845965402
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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In 1876, they wipe out General George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Chief Sitting Bull and his Sioux people then flee from the United States to Canada. There, in the autumn of 1877, the Sioux are joined by the remnants of the latest Indian nation to make a stand against the US Army, the Nez Perce. Their survivors are led by Chief White Bird. A young man follows White Bird to Sitting Bull's camp. He is White Bird's close relative and aims to tell the story of the Nez Perce War from the Nez Perce point of view. This young man's name is Duncan McDonald. Descended from chiefs of the Nez Perce and from chiefs of Scotland's most formidable clan, Duncan's family - first as Highlanders, then as Native Americans - have twice been victims of massacre and dispossession. Written with the help of Duncan McDonald's present-day kinsfolk on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Western Montana, this real-life family saga spans two continents and more than thirty generations to link Scotland's clans with the native peoples of the American West.

The Ghost of Glencoe

The Ghost of Glencoe PDF Author: Alison Hill
Publisher: Austin Macauley
ISBN: 9781528907699
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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The story of the Massacre of Glencoe in 1692 is still widely told around the Highlands of Scotland. The Campbell Dragoons came, asking for shelter from the Glencoe MacDonalds. They were fed and housed for two weeks before they arose one night and butchered their hosts in their beds. Anna takes her two small sons to a cottage in Glencoe for the summer. She meets Calum, who is dealing with a crazed ex-girlfriend, Helena, but there is something more sinister lurking around Anna's cottage. Her six-year-old son is talking to ghosts and Anna is having violent dreams, reliving the night of the massacre as Kirstin MacDonald, who died horribly from frostbite, screaming for her missing son, two weeks after the massacre. With the help of an eccentric local historian and his sidekick, they try to save Anna's son from Kirstin's ghost, but things are not what they seem.

The Massacre in History

The Massacre in History PDF Author: Mark Levene
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571819352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Book Description
Six papers from a March 1995 conference in Warwick, England, and seven additional commissioned essays span from the 11th century to the early 1990s and from western Europe to China. The historian authors explore such issues as what a massacre is, when and why it happens, cultural and political frameworks, how human societies respond, social and economic repercussions, and whether they are catalysts for change. They suggest that the massacre is often central to the course of human development and societal change. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Glencoe and the End of the Highland War

Glencoe and the End of the Highland War PDF Author: Paul Hopkins
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788853954
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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Book Description
Paul Hopkins, an authority on early Jacobitism, sets the Massacre of Glencoe in its true context. The book describes the tensions in the Highlands between the Restoration and the End of the Revolution and the influence on the Highlands of national politics. Besides filling a blank in our knowledge of the Highlands in the decade following the Massacre, the book transforms our perspective on lowlands politics by showing that the Inquiry was part of a secret patriotic campaign to break the aristocracy's political stranglehold and increase the Scottish parliament's powers.

Clan, King and Covenant

Clan, King and Covenant PDF Author: John L Roberts
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474472052
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Clan, King and Covenant explores the turbulent history of the Highlands during the seventeenth century. The signing of the National Covenant in 1638 first challenged the powers of Charles I in Scotland, but it was only when Alisdair MacDonald joined Montrose in raising the Royalist clans that the country erupted into civil war. Central to the conflict was the ancient enmity between the MacDonalds and the Campbells, Earls of Argyll, as clan Donald attempted to reclaim their ancestral lands in Argyll. There followed a whirlwind year of spectacular victories for Montrose in the name of the King as the Highland clans emerged upon the national stage, before his campaign subsided into eventual defeat. However it was only after the Restoration of Charles II that a bitter and protracted struggle broke out between Church and Crown, after Bishops were reappointed to the national Church. Political and religious tensions mounted with the acession of James VII of Scotland (James II of England) as a Catholic king ruling over a predominantly Presbyterian people. It reached a climax in the outbreak of the Highland War, when Viscount Dundee won a devastating victory at Killiecrankie on behalf of James VII over the Presbyterian forces of Lowland Scotland, but at the cost of his own life. Subsequently the Crown imposed an uneasy peace upon the Highlands, after the cold-blooded plotting of 'murder under trust' culminated in the Glencoe Massacre. Condoned by William of Orange, few events in the blood-stained history of the Highland clans have quite the dreadful resonance of this act, carried out cynically as a matter of public policy.Also available by the same author: Lost Kingdoms and Feuds, Forays and Rebellions (both Edinburgh University Press)